New album: The Welsh trio’s 14th studio album is their first number 1 since 1998, contains their classic sound, defiant, power-rock melancholy and overt politics, but also a rippling piano sound that echoes some of Abba’s big hits
Read moreAgnes Obel to Bob Dylan, Phoebe Bridgers to Sault: favourite albums of 2020 – Part 2
Great albums of 2020: clockwise from top: Agnes Obel, Phoebe Bridgers, Bob Dylan and Sault’s Untitled (Rise)
Albums of 2020 roundup: Out of crisis comes great art. A year of lockdowns, no gigs, alternative sounds, experimentation and surprises. This is the second half of our roundup of favourite albums of 2020. Part 1 was here
Read moreAlbum reviews roundup: Chilly Gonzales, Mark Lanegan, Drive-By Truckers, Marie Davidson, Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams, Beethoven, Oh! Gunquit, Puppini Sisters, Dylan Henner
This week’s nine is filled with contrast, but also many 2020 themes …
Album reviews roundup: A selection of contrasts – some dark, 2020-slanted Christmas other recent seasonal releases and other recents and earlier releases, from Chilly Gonzales to Mark Lanegan and a Beethoven anniversary piece
Read moreNew albums: Mark Lanegan, Moses Sumney, Hayley Williams, Blake Mills, I Break Horses, Watkins Family Hour, Modern Studies, Kavus Torabi, Ecuador various
Mark Lanegan
This week’s roundup includes a gritty but musical journey to accompany Mark Lanegan’s memoirs, a solo album the the Paramore singer, and Part Two of Moses Sumney’s extraordinary funk/jazz falsetto album
Read moreNew albums: Mark Lanegan, Foals, Lankum, Vagabon, Caroline Polachek, Alice Hubble, Floating Points, Jacques Greene, The Yummy Fur
Vagabon, aka Laetitia Tamko
This week’s selection includes Foals Part 2 to their acclaimed Part 1, Mark Lanegan going slightly goth, clever pop from Vagabon, extraordinary folk from Lankum, and entrancing electronica from Floating Points and Alice Hubble
Read moreNew albums: Edwyn Collins, Billie Eilish, White Denim, Beth Gibbons, Unkle, Ohtis, Gerry Cinnamon, Show Me The Body, The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Twisted sister: Billie Eilish gets on up with a highly original debut LP
This week’s selection spans the full range from the quirky pop of Billie Eilish to the triumphant return of Edwyn Collins, masterful prog from White Denim to Beth Gibbons doing Henryk Górecki with a Polish orchestra
Read moreNew albums: White Denim, Tunng, The Lemon Twigs, Ólafur Arnalds, Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood, Her's, Blood Orange, Candi Staton, Interpol
Tunng – Songs You Make At Night
Our bumper roundup includes a welcome return to the folktronica innovators Tunng, plus White Denim, Mark Lanegan, a concept album from the Lemon Twigs, 80s-style pop from Her’s, and the soul star Candi Staton
Read moreDrunk, dark and humorous: favourite albums of 2017 – part 1
Images Father John Misty's Pure Comedy
Father John Misty to Randy Newman, Thundercat to Sleaford Mods, Richard Dawson to DUDS, Björk to Lorde – who is on the first part of this week's reader-voted list, and what is the running theme?
Read moreNew album releases for week beginning 24 April 2017
Sitting comfortably? Gorillaz return with a new album … Humanz
This week includes some of the finest and funkiest collaborations, including Gorillaz, Thurston Moore, Dan Auerbach, Feist with Jarvis Cocker, Mark Lanegan and DJ Format with Abdominal
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