• Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound review – unabashedly gorgeous noise from ‘ecstatic black metal’ band
    Friday, October 3, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (The Flenser) The LA group’s second album pairs all the power and euphoria of heavy music with imaginative detailing and poignant lyrics – it will have you levitating with joy Continue reading...
  • Dania: Listless review – intimate underground pop inspired by hospital night shifts
    Friday, October 3, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Somewhere Press) Reflecting her nocturnal work as an emergency doctor, the Baghdad-born musician’s latest blends trip-hop, shoegaze and ambient into sometimes eerie, sometimes blissful tracks Continue reading...
  • Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled
    Friday, October 3, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Republic) Far from the Max Martin-assisted pop juggernaut fans expected, this soft-rock paean to domestic bliss is slight on tunes and still seethes with grievance. And the less said about her fiance’s ‘magic wand’, the better Continue...
  • Christian Tetzlaff: Elgar and Adès Violin Concertos album review – refreshing and exhilarating
    Thursday, October 2, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    Tetzlaff/BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds (Ondine) The violinist’s performance of these two concertos is energetic but also thoughtful, with the BBC Phil sounding electric Continue reading...
  • Doja Cat: Vie review – master pop provocateur splits the difference between sugar and spice
    Friday, September 26, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Kemosabe/RCA) On her fifth album, the Californian tempers the bite of 2023’s Scarlet with glossy, lovestruck sounds – but never loses her instinct for mischief Continue reading...
  • Various Artists – Pasé Bél Tan: Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana review – foot-stomping joy
    Friday, September 26, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Flee) Influenced by jazz and early blues, this collection of largely African American folk music from the 50s to the 80s spans poignant lyricism to full-throated celebration Continue reading...
  • Geese: Getting Killed review – Cameron Winter and co’s surreal, swaggering spectacular
    Friday, September 26, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Partisan/PIAS) Opaque but brilliant, the Brooklyn indie-rock band’s fourth album is full of the dread and dark absurdity of our current moment Continue reading...
  • Baltimore SO/Alsop: Clyne, Abstractions album review – Clyne writes accessible and attractive music
    Friday, September 26, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Naxos) Marin Alsop’s fine recording offers a chronology of Anna Clyne’s orchestral writing Continue reading...
  • WDR SO Cologne Chamber Players: The Romantic Room, Chamber Works by Spohr album review – plenty to discover
    Thursday, September 25, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Pentatone, six CDs) The early 19th century German composer wrote a prodigious amount of music, little of it known today. This rewarding collection features his larger-scale chamber works Continue reading...
  • Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving review – British pop’s biggest new star sheds the neo-soul cliches to really shine
    Thursday, September 25, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Capitol Records) Already dominating the charts and seemingly inspired by 70s LA, this exceptionally well-made record is full of diaristic detail and sweetly understated vocals Continue reading...
  • Cardi B: Am I the Drama? review – vigorous score-settling and brutally witty put-downs
    Friday, September 19, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Atlantic) Seven years after her debut, Cardi B is back with a ferociously enjoyable 70-minute album of eclecticism and enthusiastic annihilation of her enemies Continue reading...
  • Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Verklärte Nacht, Die Jakobsleiter album review – a compelling and impressive collection
    Friday, September 19, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Berliner Philharmoniker, three CDs or BluRay) Five works by the modernist composer, all taken from concerts given by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, include a magnificent performance of the oratorio fragment Die...
  • Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
    Friday, September 19, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Nonesuch) From breezy swing to scampering synths, folksy harmonies to stark wails of the soul, Salvant’s crystalline vocals shine across her ingenious experiments Continue reading...
  • Kieran Hebden and William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late ’80s review – Four Tet fries his formative country influences
    Friday, September 19, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Eat Your Own Ears) Lyle Lovett meets brain-scouring distortion on the electronic musician’s surprisingly un-nostalgic collaboration with former Lambchop guitarist Tyler Continue reading...
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Opp 12 no 2 & 96 album review – sheer joie de vivre
    Thursday, September 18, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Signum) Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson end their cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas with energised and immaculate performances Continue reading...
  • Joy Crookes: Juniper review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Thursday, September 18, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Insanity) Four years ago, the south Londoner’s star was on the rise with her debut Skin – then she vanished. Now, she’s back with shimmering sounds and cleverly unsentimental lyrics, plus explosive cameos by Vince Staples and Kano...
  • Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton: The World Feels Dusty album review – powerful narrations spanning Ella Fitzgerald to Emily Dickinson
    Friday, September 12, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Chandos) With sweeping full-colour piano, Connolly and Middleton pay attention to every word, every harmonic shift in a performance of appealing immediacy Continue reading...
  • Cerys Hafana: Angel review – tracing the life cycle with the Welsh triple harp
    Friday, September 12, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (tak:til/Glitterbeat) On their third release in 18 months, this exceptional musician draws from folk story, Breton influences and nature to explore the sublime potential of its title Continue reading...
  • Mark William Lewis: Mark William Lewis review – A24’s first musical signing’s cinematic south London scenes
    Friday, September 12, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (A24 Music) Haunting harmonica and poetic banality add to the Londoner’s spookily sonorous baritone to create a hypnotically familiar yet ineffably fresh album Continue reading...
  • Ed Sheeran: Play review – subcontinental sounds and shards of darkness – but still unmistakably him
    Friday, September 12, 2025 from Music + Album reviews | The Guardian
    (Gingerbread Man/Atlantic) Despite embracing Indian and Persian sounds, Sheeran’s eighth album goes back to basics after two records of muted melancholy – albeit with some surprising undercurrents 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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