Category: Music
Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – Justin Vernon’s most easy-going record yet
Last October’s Sable EP saw Justin Vernon return briefly to the sorrowful man-in-a-cabin vibes of Bon Iver’s breakthrough album, For Emma, Forever Ago. Now, the [more…]
Real Lies: We Will Annihilate Our Enemies review – lad laureate meets euphoric synths
The third album by London electronic duo Real Lies might be the perfect record for our unseasonably warm spring. Beneath its chilly 1990s and 2000s [more…]
Negros Tou Moria: Mavri Ellada review | Ammar Khalia’s global album of the month
As far-right political parties have risen in Greece in recent years, young artists from Athens’ migrant communities have been using hip-hop to channel their anger. [more…]
Valerie June: Owls, Omens and Oracles review – a soul-recharging exercise in radical positivity
While current global events would seem more likely to inspire dark or depressed music, the Tennessee-based, Grammy-nominated, Bob Dylan-favoured Americana singer-songwriter Valerie June is pushing [more…]
‘My players are Olympians’: meet Bradford legends the Black Dyke Brass Band
It’s the smell that hits you first. One hundred and seventy years of slide grease and valve oil hang pungent in the air. Outside, it’s [more…]
‘Have the courage to walk away’: Bon Iver on romance, retirement and his rapturous new record
Justin Vernon would rather not be doing any of this. Releasing a new Bon Iver album, promoting it. He absolutely isn’t going to tour it. [more…]
Pulp: Spike Island review – Jarvis Cocker and co’s joyous second coming
It seems weirdly fitting that Pulp have premiered their first album in 24 years with a song that appears to fret about the validity of [more…]
Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s deep-south gonzo horror down at the crossroads
Ryan Coogler is the film-maker and hit-maker who started in social realism with his debut Fruitvale Station, became the Wakandan emperor of super heroism with [more…]
Sherelle: With a Vengeance review | Album of the week
Like turning up the radio to drown out the sound of a jackhammer, a lot of the dance music that is resonating right now is [more…]
One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream
Film-maker Kevin Macdonald has created a fever dream of pop culture: a TV-clip collage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s time in New York in [more…]
