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After her big breakthrough and West End fame, Rebecca Lucy Taylor works through her worries in real time on her new album – to fascinating and confusing effect
Last week, London’s Duke of Yor…
16 days ago
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The two deep south songwriters ditch country’s rhinestones for a personal, defiant reframing of the genre’s tropes
The origins of Send a Prayer My Way stretch back nearly a decade. The partne…
17 days ago
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As a new book skewers Spotify’s effect on music, two Guardian music writers spent a week assessing the limits of living with and without it
Laura Snapes, deputy music editor I was set the task of not …
30 days ago
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After losing their frontman, the band’s third studio album shows how resilient and adaptable they are, with luscious melodies, fantastical lyrics and lots of recorders
The last time Black …
37 days ago
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The Virginia songwriter gets lost in understatement on a loved-up album about her relationship with bandmate Julien Baker, shrouding sharp lyrics in shy melodies
Last February, the Ame…
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(Dene Jesmond)
Veering from the standard heritage-artist playbook, Ferry pairs unearthed demos from across his career with cool narration from Barratt, to beautiful, unsettling effect
There comes a poi…
50 days ago
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(Luaka Bop)
Forty years into their career, this family band deliver their debut – and it’s a life-affirming album full of spontaneity and seemingly telepathic harmonising
The saga of Annie and the Cald…
56 days ago
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Ayers’ genre-bending jazz-funk sound produced one fantastic album after another – and then found a new lease of life in hip-hop sampling
• Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunsh…
58 days ago
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While some listeners might baulk at the earnest spoken-word incantations, you can’t argue with DePlume’s outstanding melodies, played with tremulous vibrato
Alabaster DePlume’s s…
64 days ago
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(Domino)
Noah Lennox’s powerful and adventurous album has plenty of playlistable psych-pop, but then turns introspective: it’s a striking emotional arc
The last time the world heard from Noah “Panda Be…