We were really honoured to have our BBC Radio 4 series Soul Music profiled by the amazing Hua Hsu in The New Yorker.
“Songs can often feel like a shelter from the world, a few minutes lifted free from the tendrils of history until, over time, they become foundations for our own lives. “Soul Music” is less interested in telling us how to hear a song than it is in encouraging us to listen. This may sound mawkish—but how much of our inner life is first learned through music? It’s how many of us discover the largeness of the world and our place within it, the meaning of love or loyalty, the poetic depths of despair. What begins as a catchy lyric evolves into an entirely new grammar of friendship or devotion. A melody you can’t stop humming suggests a mood that you want to live in forever.”
Read the full article here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/the-anti-explainer-insight-of-soul-music