(Warp) Compiling the highly sought-after limited vinyl releases sold at recent festival sets, this surprise 38-track release filled with bangers and beauty is a trove for fans Continue reading...
(In+Out) As saxophonist and band leader Marshall Allen turns 100, his evergreen outfit effortlessly draw on their rich history, as classics meet the cosmic Continue reading...
The gardener turns storyteller, the star baritone keeps it tasteful and family harmony abounds, while the nation’s favourite festive choir is everywhere… Continue reading...
(Scarlet Tiger) Producer Felix Weatherall adopts another guise, swapping lo-fi analogue for a disorienting burst of alternative dance music Continue reading...
(somethingscosmic) Five rising artists each perform one of their songs, then the US singer-songwriter covers another one of their tracks in a set of woebegone elegance Continue reading...
(NNA Tapes) Harpist Marilu Donovan and violinist Adam Markiewicz strip back their ornamentation and deliver an ambient experience that is both startling and unsettling Continue reading...
Wang/Lartigau/Boston SO/Andris Nelsons (Deutsche Grammophon) Wang brings her characteristic brilliance to the obbligato line of Messaien’s symphony, part of a whole that, under Nelsons and the Boston Symphony, doesn’t fully convince...
(Supraphon) The Czech nobleman and composer’s journey from Bohemia to Jerusalem is the inspiration for this rewarding cross-cultural album Continue reading...
Cult American musician David Pajo’s latest solo outing reflects his recent troubles but also his restless desire to change things up Continue reading...
(Bella Union) Josh Tillman ties together the misery, wit and showmanship of his previous albums on a set laced with strings and swagger Continue reading...
(Bella Union) The married duo’s 13th album was made to evoke ‘the half-remembered singalongs of our 1970s childhoods’, and is full of rich sensory songwriting Continue reading...
(A State of Flo Records) Brian d’Souza’s genre-crossing curiosity takes him from propulsive disco to nursery-rhyme melodies and Tiësto-worthy trance Continue reading...
Steger/Kuss Quartet (Rubicon) Alongside a rather brittle Death and the Maiden, contemporary composers Iris ter Schiphorst adds a recorder to a string quartet while Marc Andre’s miniatures study textures Continue reading...
Jaroussky/Orliński/De Sá/Lezhneva/Les Accents/Noally (Erato, two CDs) Thibault Noally captures the exuberance of Hesse’s 18th-century ‘church opera’ originally written for female voices Continue reading...
(EMI) The Scottish star’s solo debut is about ‘empowering myself to listen to my own intuition’ – leading her to alternately clumsy and deft songs influenced by Y2K pop Continue reading...
(PGLang/Interscope) After his beef with Drake, Lamar expands his list of targets with enthralling rhymes and adventurous arrangements. At this point, he’s deferring only to God Continue reading...
London Chamber Ensemble (Somm) Lost on a train and reconstructed, Herbert Howells’s youthful String Quartet No 3 is paired with the String Quartet No 6 by his teacher, Charles Wood Continue reading...
(Nonesuch) The collective and their artistic director’s classy multimedia project highlights the lives lost and land snatched away in building the US transcontinental railroad Continue reading...