• Adès, Leith, Marsey: Orchestral Works album review – an impressive collection marks a productive association
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    Hallé Orchestra/Adès (Hallé) This brings together new works of his own and by composers he admires that Thomas Adès has conducted at Bridgewater Hall during his residency with the Hallé Continue reading...
  • Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Op 87 album review – Avdeeva brings a light touch in an accomplished performance
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    Yulianna Avdeeva (Pentatone) It’s fascinating to compare this nuanced set with the performance by the Soviet pianist who inspired Shostakovich in 1950 Continue reading...
  • Daytimers: Alterations review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Relentless Records) The UK collective have been reimagining south Asian music since 2020, and their new compilation splices junglism and Afro-house onto gems in Sony India’s catalogue Continue reading...
  • Kae Tempest: Self Titled review – the rhythms in his lyrics are still so distinct
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Island Records) Despair runs through the Londoner’s fifth album but, in what is essentially a love letter to the trans community, his home town and partner, a hard-won beauty breaks through Continue reading...
  • Kesha: . (Period) review – a smart, funny return to her hedonistic hot-mess persona
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Kesha Records) After a long legal battle, the pop star’s sixth album harks back to her 2010s era, with a buffet of pop styles and only rare hints of her highly-publicised trauma Continue reading...
  • Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Blue Note) The US saxophonist pulls back the vocals of his last record to present a new ensemble and all-original repertoire, resulting in an ideal balance of ingenuity and rapport Continue reading...
  • BC Camplight: A Sober Conversation review – an eccentric rock opera confronting childhood abuse
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Bella Union) The US singer’s seventh album takes his meta-theatrical style almost into showtune territory, with songs about repression, depression and anger Continue reading...
  • Lorde: Virgin review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Universal) After her last album embraced switching off, the musician returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst with a strikingly unsettled sound Continue reading...
  • Bantock: The Seal Woman album review – Celtic folk opera that never quite gets its head above water
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    Howard/Carby/Scottish Opera/Andrews (Retrospect Opera, two CDs) Granville Bantock’s story of a Selkie emerging from the sea is a century-old curio whose beauty has faded over the years Continue reading...
  • Just Biber album review – Podger rises brilliantly to these sonatas’ extreme challenges
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    Rachel Podger/Brecon Baroque (Channel Classics) The baroque violinist remains true to the spirit of Biber’s music on a new recording of six extremely difficult sonatas, animal noises et al Continue reading...
  • Duo Ruut: Ilmateade review – soft psych-folk channels hazy days and snowy rides | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Duo Ruut Music) The pair play with the traditions of Baltic Finnic runo song to explore the connections between the weather and emotion, giving ancient forms crossover potential Continue reading...
  • Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon review – love lights melodies through the fuzz
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Third Man Records) Will Anderson opens up on the NYC group’s third album, revealing an expansive articulacy to his take on 90s indie-rock Continue reading...
  • The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
    Thursday, March 28, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    The Swedes’ fourth LP is something else, but something profoundly exhilarating.
  • OutKast - Stankonia
    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    The greatest hip hop album of the 21st century.
  • Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    So high you can’t still get over it.
  • Wiley - The Ascent
    Monday, March 25, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    An incoherent album from the grime godfather, but one full of loveable eccentricities.
  • Kvelertak - Meir
    Monday, March 25, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Eleven tracks of heavy metal excellence from the celebrated Norwegian sextet.
  • Vondelpark - Seabed
    Friday, March 22, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Meticulous and soulful, this is exemplary electronic RnB.
  • Steve Coleman and Five Elements - Functional Arrhythmias
    Friday, March 22, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    The most exciting and substantial Coleman release of the last few years.
  • Edwyn Collins - Understated
    Friday, March 22, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Knockout stuff that suggests Collins’ knack for melody remains intact.
  • Bonobo - The North Borders
    Thursday, March 21, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Impressive fifth album from producer Simon Green, building on previous triumphs.
  • Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
    Thursday, March 21, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    A fourth album of successful progression from metallers with grander designs than most.
  • Gwen Guthrie - Portrait
    Wednesday, March 20, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    A superior selection of dub-infused disco from one of soul’s most underrated talents.
  • Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
    Tuesday, March 19, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Playful, dizzying, cloud-busting and, perhaps more so than ever before, serious.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonatas (violin: Leonidas Kavakos, piano: Enrico Pace)
    Monday, March 18, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best.
  • Kyle Eastwood - The View From Here
    Monday, March 18, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Eastwood’s finest album to date, with a timeless quality.
  • Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
    Friday, March 15, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Timberlake’s third solo album is all mood and no tension, exclusively foreplay fare.
  • Peace - In Love
    Friday, March 15, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Peace take the past and swish it about with a bit swagger, and the results are just dandy.
  • Conquering Animal Sound - On Floating Bodies
    Thursday, March 14, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Second set from Glaswegian electro duo, successfully expanding their debut’s palette.
  • Mudhoney - Vanishing Point
    Thursday, March 14, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Grunge originators show zero signs of mellowing.
  • The Strokes - Comedown Machine
    Wednesday, March 13, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    Brilliant pop songs – and sometimes that’s all that really matters.
  • Steve Mason - Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time
    Wednesday, March 13, 2013 from Latest Reviews
    A sprawling, beautiful, brain-belch of an album from a never-dull artist.
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