
Britain is scared of jazz
Ezra Collective is the first ever jazz band to win the Mercury Prize – lifting a curse on a genre…
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Ezra Collective is the first ever jazz band to win the Mercury Prize – lifting a curse on a genre…
ByThe band’s new album, like all their greatest work, is suffused with melancholy.
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ByOn their fourth album, the Mercury Award-winning band fuse avant-garde pop and hip hop to create a truly exhilarating sound.
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ByOn The Car, Alex Turner sounds increasingly like a man who doesn’t need his band any more. The resulting record is…
ByThe band’s new album is full of their signature contradictions. It is uplifting and ironic; ultra-modern yet nostalgic. Take it…
ByThe 23-year-old has already played for the royals and tackled the Elgar Cello Concerto. Where does he go from here?
ByDrake used to be our Prince Hamlet – but on his underpowered new album he is a journeyman extra offering…
ByEzra’s sun-soaked new album shows off his gap-year vibes and big wicket-keeper energy.
ByOn her new album the 35-year-old turns to country music to come to terms with her sexuality and the death…
ByRecycled choruses, vapid lyrics and meat-and-two-veg guitar: C’mon You Know could only achieve profundity if you were four pints deep…
ByThe best songs on Harry’s House feel like a brief tickle of cool air on a warm, lazy day.
ByOn his new album, the American rapper explores therapy, grief and masculinity.
ByThis is an immersive, cathartic new album of stadium-filling songs.
ByThese are songs that, whether you like them or not, do not tire or fade, and a voice that will…
ByThe US indie singer-songwriter on diary-writing, home movies, and the pull of nostalgia.
ByOn their third album Mood Valiant, the Australian neo-soul group return with complex grooves that are always transcendent.
ByOn their third album, London rock band Wolf Alice confirm that they are one of the greats.
ByThe band’s disinterest in comprehensible lyrics, melodic engagement or recognisable song structures makes for tiring listening.
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