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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Been Stellar: Scream from New York, NY — new rock band thrum with vitality

    The fivesome’s debut album has the roaring momentum of a young band ready to go

    The five members of Been Stellar sitting languorously on wooden benches like those found in an old passenger ferry
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Kneecap: Fine Art — Northern Irish rap trio meld the Good Friday Agreement with nights on the town

    The group’s debut album makes careful and artful use of controversial ingredients

    Two men stand in front of a van with the word ‘kneecap’ spray-painted along the side and decorated with Irish flags. A man wearing a mask with the colours of the Irish flag sits in the driver’s seat. Two men in sunglasses and puffer jackets stand in front holding bottles and bags of chips. One of the men gives the middle finger.
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Riccardo Chailly unleashes the drama in rare Verdi choral works

    The conductor and the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala capture the Italianate splendour of ‘Inno delle nazioni’ and ‘Quattro pezzi sacri’

    Riccardo Chailly in white tie conducting the Teatro alla Scala orchestra
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Jake Long: City Swamp — a dystopian jazz suite with an uplifting vibe

    The drummer shows off his post-production skills on a record where influences range from Miles Davis to early dub

    Jake Long wearing a brown suede coat over a black hoodie, standing in the middle of a graffiti-lined street with parked cars
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Review
    Stéphane Degout’s Fauré song cycles — expressive and intimate

    The baritone brings out the darker side of the composer’s vocal writing in a recording for his centenary

    A man in a fedora and navy pea coat walking in front of a rough hewn wall
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Review
    The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert — a singular strand of Black American music

    The long-awaited release of a 1965 live recording of the Georgia Sea Island Singers is musicologically fascinating

    Black and white photo of people standing in a group singing as a young girl looks suspiciously at the camera
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Review
    John Grant: The Art of the Lie — painful truths hit home

    The singer-songwriter mingles dreamy melodies with unsettling excavations of a troubled childhood

    A bearded man with a baseball cap faces the camera holding up his hands
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Review
    Lankum: Live in Dublin — an out of this world experience

    The Irish folk group bring otherworldly energy to this remarkable and intense live set

    The four members of Lankum, three men dressed in black and a red-headed woman in a lavender blazer, sit together against a white background
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Review
    Kaytranada’s Timeless — meticulous but middling

    Childish Gambino and Anderson .Paak are among many guest vocalists, but the songcraft feels unvarying and flat

    A man with dark short hair, a beard and tattoos on his arms and chest poses in a black vest with his arms folded.
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Review
    Gabriela Ortiz: Revolución diamantina — bold colours and lively rhythms

    The composer celebrates her Mexican roots in three works performed by the LA Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel

    An orchestra performs on stage in front of an audience. All the musicians are dressed in black apart from a violin soloist, who is dressed in a white gown and performs at the front of the stage next to a male conductor.
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Review
    Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers collaborate for an ode to Central Park

    The trumpeter and pianist conjure an intimate vibe in a recording of slowly unfolding pleasures

    A black and white photo of a man and women in their eighties. The man has a grey beard and holds a trumpet while looking out to one side. The woman faces the opposite direction with her eyes closed and wears large headphones over long locs
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Review
    Charli XCX’s Brat shows us what she’s made of

    In one of her best albums yet, the UK singer mixes electropop and dance numbers with a new emotional vulnerability

    A woman with long dark hair and a white top stands in a doorframe
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Review
    Shaboozey joins the country music craze in Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going

    Western motifs are laid on heavily, from Ennio Morricone-style whistling to neighing horses

    A man with locs and wearing a midnight-blue satin bomber jacket sits on a brown suitcase on top of a black trunk in front of a brown backdrop. An acoustic guitar leans against the trunk
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Review
    Thou: Umbilical — masters of sludge go back to basics

    Basslines churn and riffs storm on the Louisiana band’s new record

    A man singing into a mic bends forwards as he puts one foot up in front of a drum kit on stage
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Review
    Five stars for Arooj Aftab: Night Reign — nocturnal music which demands another play

    She evokes dark hours full of possibility, with help from flute, harp and Elvis Costello on the Wurlitzer

    A black and white photo of young woman with dark hair and wearing dark eyeliner, looking up towards the camera unsmiling whilst sitting on a sofa
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Review
    Bertrand Chamayou: Cage2 — ‘prepared’ piano pieces by an American iconoclast

    A dozen works from the experimental composer present a virtuoso display of sounds

    A man in a tuxedo plays a grand piano with its lid removed, exposing the strings in the inteior
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Review
    Vince Staples: Dark Times — escapist rap meets classic old-school beats

    The Californian rapper returns from an excursion into making darkly comic TV with a thoughtful record

    A black and white close-up of a man’s face with his eyes closed as if lost in deep thought
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Review
    Finom: Not God — Chicago duo rock out on catchy guitar-led album

    Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart sing on discordant tracks that sometimes sound like a malfunctioning engine

    A black and white photo of two women with long dark hair and dark clothing. The woman on the left pulls the waist of the skirt of the woman on the right, who raises her arms in front of her
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Review
    Danny Elfman swaps the cinema for the concert hall

    Colin Currie tackles the Percussion Concerto while the glittering ‘Wunderkammer’ is performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

    A man with long red hair and wearing a black long-sleeved top stands next to a woman in a hot pink shirt. They both face orchestra musicians surrounded by microphones, as if in a recording session.
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Review
    Kenny Barron: Beyond This Place — svelte and urbane jazz

    The pianist leads a quintet featuring young saxophonist star Immanuel Wilkins

    A man in his eighties wearing a velvet cap and blue sweater plays a Steinway piano in a recording studio
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Review
    Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft — the starriest anti-star returns

    The singer’s music is energised by her push-pull relationship with fame

    A young woman wearing a cap and dark glasses squats with her elbows on her knees and her hands on the sides of her head, looking straight ahead
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Review
    Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown — atmospheric folk-rock

    The Portishead singer has a powerful sense of feeling in her voice on her solo debut

    A woman with straight blond hair and wearing a black long-sleeved top, clutches a microphone with both hands while singing intensely with her eyes closed
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Review
    Richard Thompson recalls his 1980s solo heyday on Ship to Shore

    The 75-year-old singer’s latest record at times sounds like a greatest hits release

    A man in his seventies, with a white beard and wearing a black beanie, black T-shirt, blue blazer and a guitar with a colourful strap slung around him, looks straight ahead at the camera
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Review
    Yuja Wang: The Vienna Recital — superb accomplishment

    This live recording from 2022 captures the pianist’s technical mastery across wildly diverse pieces

    A woman in a fitting nude-coloured evening gown stands in front of a grand piano on a low-lit stage, smiling at the audience
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Review
    Keeley Forsyth evokes a glowering atmosphere in The Hollow

    Solemn songs unfold with intense singing, mournful beats and swelling drones

    A black-and-white photo of a woman showing only the side of her face with her dark hair blending into the black background
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