Everything Is Recorded is a genre-spanning collaborative project spearheaded by Richard Russell, an influential British producer who runs the highly successful independent label XL Recordings. The collective's releases are taken mostly from sessions at Russell's London studios, featuring a wide range of R&B, hip-hop, indie, and jazz musicians, including XL regulars like Sampha and Giggs, as well as more surprising guests such as violinist Warren Ellis, saxophonist Kamasi Washington, Crass' Penny Rimbaud, and Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah. The results encompass dark trip-hop, vulnerable alternative R&B, and brooding rap, as heard on Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell (2018) and Friday Forever (2020), followed by Temporary (2025), a digital folk conception that brought in Maddy Prior, Jah Wobble, and Bill Callahan, among others.