Michel Faber’s tin ear
The novelist’s arresting study of the power of music is marred by a clumsy structure and snobbish tone.
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I hate Spotify Wrapped
We know Spotify exploits artists. We shouldn’t let it exploit music fans too.
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Ezra Pound’s experiments in sound
The poet’s music revealed his impulse to innovate and disrupt. Did it also hasten his slide towards fascism?
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Dolly Parton’s Rockstar is a cheesy, moving, joyful covers album
It’s too long, and unavoidably corny. But this is such a fun endeavour that it’s hard to resist.
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The confessions of Robbie Williams
A new Netflix series can’t explain how the singer’s bombastic, revealing songs made him the self-flagellating poster-boy of a generation.
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“I didn’t want anyone to know it was me”: on being Joni Mitchell’s “Carey”
For 50 years, the “mean old daddy” immortalised in one of Mitchell’s best-loved songs has been an enigma. Now he…
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The fatal flaw in the “final” Beatles song
On “Now and Then”, created using AI, John Lennon’s voice is punchy and crisp. Does that make it a great…
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REM’s soundtrack to the end of history
The album Up captured the dehumanisation and sexless ennui that defined the late Nineties.
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