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In an age of genuine instability, do we still want to get our politics from pop music?
ByThe pop star is supposed to be above this kind of self-conscious marketing.
ByThe singer’s new album attempts to recapture the intense art-project pop of her early records.
ByThe North Shields artist’s third album, People Watching, shows the musician continues to find inspiration in his troubled roots.
ByAt 60, the singer released Lookaftering, her first album in 35 years – and sparked a career renaissance.
ByThe singer found fame with her debut album in 2022 – but Perverts, a subversive horror movie of a record,…
ByAs the singer showcased her new album Patterns in Repeat at Hackney Church, the parallels across her work – and…
ByThis Is Me... Now is a bizarre but poetic record of her rekindled love for Ben Affleck.
ByReleased 50 years ago, the singer’s commercial breakthrough is a masterwork of ambivalence.
ByIt’s too long, and unavoidably corny. But this is such a fun endeavour that it’s hard to resist.
ByThe album Up captured the dehumanisation and sexless ennui that defined the late Nineties.
ByEzra 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.
ByAt a circus venue in Paris the next evolution in the musician’s theatrical pop shows how real life seeps into…
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…
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