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NORDIC DRIVE EXPOSes MATERIAL CRAFT of rolls-royce spectreFollowing the 2023 debut of its first all-electric vehicle in Napa and a subsequent drive of the darkened Black Badge edition in Barcelona, Rolls-Royce brings the Spectre Series II to the streets of Stockholm. The updated super-coupé extends its range by 18% to 390 miles (627 kilometers) while introducing highly intricate material finishes, shifting the focus toward deep bespoke personalization, gradient exterior treatments, and intricate textile development.the Rolls-Royce Spectre Series II glides through the streets of Stockholmall images courtesy of Rolls-Royce Motor Carsrolls-royce unlocks more range and speed with less charging timeWhere the Napa drive highlighted the transition from a V12 engine to silent electric torque, and Barcelona exposed the aggressive acceleration of the alter-ego Black Badge, Stockholm provides a cool, crisp environment to test the Series II’s electric endurance. Engineers at the British marque refined the battery cell technology to unlock a longer driving distance and reduce charging times by 14%.

The new album from French-Moroccan vocalist Basma and Paris-based group Temir Alcy comes just in time for the changing of the clocks. It’s a dark and disorientating listen, exploring themes of loss and new beginnings over swampy, downtempo rhythms. The 11 tracks here linger somewhere between folk, shoegaze and ambient, with skulking percussion, droning passages and plucked strings soaked in reverb. Opening track Belati sets the tone with its spacious, shapeshifting composition, where ghostly drones and Basma’s layered calls give way to a sluggish beat. Most of the tracks follow a similar non-structure: amorphous but with an intermittent, sultry groove, like the winding bass on Khti Sarah, or the slow, swinging rhythm on Aji M3aya. Basma and Temir Alcy: NAD album cover. Basma’s performance is always captivating. Singing in a mixture of Darija (vernacular Arabic) and French, she delivers poetic snapshots in sensory terms that chime with the shifting seasons: “shy light”, blowing wind and bonfires. On Rised, breathy fragments are looped and reversed into a dreamy haze, while her lilting chants on La Tourne have a hypnotic effect.