The London-via-NYC polymath’s third album is proof positive that the more you write about what you know, the better the ...

This hypnotic response to modern economic crisis proves that even when the cryptic London collective tread familiar ground, they do so with an energy that few can match Few bands are as committed to ...

Floating somewhere between worlds – spiritual and streetwise, experimental yet grounded, like the smell of incense outside a ...

It’s fascinating to observe just how Mike Hadreas’ music as Perfume Genius has evolved over the last 15 years. When his debut album, Learning, was released in 2010, it was full of fragile piano ...

Bryan Ferry will be 80 later this year, but like many established artists he continues to seek new ways of making music. His latest move has brought him into collaboration with Glasgow-based writer, ...

It’s quite a surprise to see Alison Krauss reuniting with Union Station to produce their first album since 2011’s Paper Airplane. Not because there was any dramatic fallout between the band of course, ...

The black metallers are quieter now, more controlled. The tension is contained, the violence refined. Perhaps they’ve learned. Or grown tired. Perhaps they’ve just grown Deafheaven have made a name, ...

Following that Oscars slap, could the sometime Fresh Prince’s first album in two decades be a raw, cathartic, mask-off moment? So, Based On A True Story arrives teeming with possibility. With no ...

Orchestral arrangements, guitars with just the right amount of reverb and Michelle Zauner’s wistful, sad vocals at the centre of everything – this is an album to luxuriate in Mills’ production is ...

Of all the millennial Disney Channel popstars, Selena Gomez’s trajectory is perhaps the most erratic – she had a rebellious, wild phase which was dwarfed by Miley Cyrus, she scored two sizeable hits ...

The Belfast band return, three decades on, with exactly the same line-up and a complete lack of pretence Anyone making a first encounter with pop music in the late 1980s will remember The Adventures.