Category: Music
Post your questions for Mike Scott of the Waterboys
No strangers to an ambitious vision, the Waterboys’ 16th album, Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, tells the story of the Easy Rider director-star and outsider [more…]
Saudi Arabia asks Hans Zimmer to rework national anthem
Saudi Arabia has asked the Oscar-winning composer, Hans Zimmer, to work on a new version of its national anthem, a senior official said, as the [more…]
Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – a flame that still burns bright
After the triumph of scoring an unlikely pandemic UK No 1 album with As the Love Continues, things quickly turned very difficult for Glasgow four-piece [more…]
FKA twigs: Eusexua review – a hymn to the healing power of the dancefloor
It’s a slippery concept, but FKA twigs’s third album title roughly translates as an instance of feeling perfectly at one inside oneself, the Cartesian mind-body [more…]
Davis Galvin: Prism review – shape-shifting soundscapes for the horticulturally minded
In 1976, composer Mort Garson released Mother Earth’s Plantasia, an album of early electronic ditties designed to help listeners’ house plants grow. Though its horticultural [more…]
Wardruna: Birna review – numbing Norse nature-metal better suited to Netflix scores
Inspired by the heartbeat of a hibernating bear – a mere 9bpm – Wardruna use grand, lumbering drones, played on traditional stringed instruments such as [more…]
Central Cee: Can’t Rush Greatness review – conflict and contradiction underpin justly confident rap debut
The business of reviewing the debut album by Central Cee entails a level of security you seldom encounter in 2025: no information is provided beyond [more…]
Teddy Swims: I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) review – retro soul with a retro lyrical attitude
While Brat summer grabbed the headlines as 2024’s defining musical movement, a straighter, more masculine, less lurid green development was rumbling in the background. Defined [more…]
Irish-language cinema has bright future despite Oscars snub, says Kneecap director
Hollywood may not have been quite ready to see Kneecap “walking down the red carpet smoking a joint” but the makers of the comedy biopic [more…]
Perfume Genius: ‘I want to feel extremes – but I’m not as self-destructive now’
Mike Hadreas feels that he had self-destructive tendencies as young as seven. “I saw a white van with no windows go by,” he says. “And [more…]
