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    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Review
      U2: Songs of Surrender — 40 songs remade in a lockdown project gone too far

      The band revisit their back catalogue with varying degrees of success

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Review
      Hyperpop duo 100 Gecs go mainstream with 10,000 Gecs

      Once acclaimed as the ‘future of pop’, the US duo are now releasing their second album

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Review
      Yuja Wang: The American Project — glittering finger-work

      The pianist gives a flamboyant performance of Teddy Abrams’s Piano Concerto

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Review
      Steel pans take centre stage in Leon Foster Thomas’s Calasanitus

      The Trinidad-born virtuoso showcases the instrument’s edge and bite in an album of mostly original tracks

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Review
      Ali Farka Touré: Voyageur — gentle guitar grooves

      A cache of previously unreleased songs recorded by the Malian master between 1991 and 2004

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Review
      Antonio Pappano conducts Puccini’s Turandot with blazing colour

      Jonas Kaufmann is a superb Calaf on a disc that holds up against the opera’s great recordings of the past

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Review
      Sleaford Mods return with sardonic and furious flights of fancy on UK Grim

      The laureates of grotty Britain offer portraits of posturing punk bands and pointless punch-ups on their 12th album

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Review
      Van Morrison takes a break from pub-bore lectures with Moving on Skiffle

      The 77-year-old’s third album in as many years is a tribute to the 1950s music that first inspired him

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Slowthai introduces the ‘realest version’ of himself in new album UGLY

      The British rapper embraces positive thinking on his third album, which is more rock than hip-hop

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Kali Uchis takes love as her message in Red Moon in Venus

      Rather than succumb to syrupy cliché, the songs bring this well-worn but inexhaustible subject to life

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre — a showcase for London jazz

      A multi-faceted release highlights the scene’s exploratory fusion aesthetic

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Silvestrov: Silent Songs — meditative and yearning music from Ukraine’s leading composer

      Baritone Konstantin Krimmel and pianist Hélène Grimaud perform with deeply felt eloquence

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Review
      Gina Birch: I Play My Bass Loud — a feminist musical manifesto

      The Raincoats’ co-founder balances directness and humour in her debut solo release

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Gorillaz: Cracker Island — where’s the colour and bounce?

      Damon Albarn’s cartoon band release their eighth album but it lacks exuberance

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Moonlight Benjamin: Wayo — a simmering stew of blues

      The Haitian singer turns to universal themes of freedom and change in her latest release

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Review
      Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s marvellous return to Mozart

      A project to record a complete cycle of the piano concertos is resumed after two decades

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Review
      Catalyst Quartet: Uncovered Vol 3 — gems from neglected African-American composers

      Works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still and George Walker feature on this new album

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Review
      Pink’s Trustfall is a catchy but risk-averse pick‘n’mix

      The singer’s ninth album covers many bases while never fully harnessing her fearless energy

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Review
      Caroline Polachek captivates on Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

      Lust mingles with tender sentiments on this Valentine’s Day release

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Review
      Got the Keys to the Kingdom captures Chris Potter’s warm intensity

      This live set recorded at NYC’s Village Vanguard club features be-bop and classic blues

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Review
      Paramore plug their guitars back in for new album This Is Why

      One of emo’s defining bands return to their roots but with an added sophistication

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Review
      Kelela: Raven — introspection on the dancefloor

      Rhythmic energy bubbles under the surface of the Maryland-raised singer’s new album

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Review
      Beatrice Rana brings delicacy to Clara and Robert Schumann’s piano concertos

      Works by the husband and wife are given high-class performances

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Review
      Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters: Abri Cyclonique — sounds of the rainforest

      Shimmering songs form a musical travelogue celebrating the landscape of Guadeloupe

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Review
      Shania Twain: Queen of Me — country-pop star returns with attempted rebrand

      Toes curl and Gen Z slang is mangled as the Canadian singer attempts a pop makeover in her sixth album

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