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74 days ago

Sam Fender: People Watching review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Polydor)
On his third album, produced by the War on Drugs, the North Shields singer-songwriter shows just how gifted he is at pairing stadium choruses with sharp, bleak vignettes

Sam Fender’s third al…

88 days ago

Olly Alexander: Polari review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Polydor)
The actor-singer’s solo debut proper looks to 1980s gay clubland for inspiration, but plays it too safe under all the retro synths and stammered-vocal effects

It isn’t melodramatic to say tha…

2 months ago

The 2025 Grammys celebrated pop being back to its agenda-setting best | Alexis Petridis

It was heartening – if no surprise – to see Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Charli xcx and Chappell Roan all grab gongs, while an award for the Beatles suggests confidence in AI

• News: Beyoncé and Kendrick …

3 months ago

Melancholy, morphine and the Baader-Meinhof group: Marianne Faithfull’s 10 best recordings

From a career-detonating collaboration with the Rolling Stones in 1969 to a hypnotic experiment with 13-era Blur, Marianne Faithfull’s career was one of reinvention – yet always underpinned by her wr…

Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory album review | Alexis Petridis's album of the month

(Jagjaguwar)
Fronting a brand new band, the singer-songwriter dives into the dark side, with confusion and foreboding creeping through 80s moods, big choruses and fine melodies

The last time the world …

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