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    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

    Arts writer and pop critic

    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney has been writing for the FT since 1998.

    In 2014 he won the London Press Club’s Arts Reviewer of the year award. He lives in London.

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    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      InterviewMusic
      Rapper Denzel Curry: ‘Yes, I am the best’

      His journey through disenchantment and depression has led to fierce lines and unquenchable self-confidence

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Person in the News
      Beyoncé, the queen of pop striving to keep her crown

      The superstar treads a tightrope between standing up for the disadvantaged and flaunting her own hard-won privilege

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Best new album releases of the week
      Beyoncé falls short of dancefloor utopia with new album Renaissance

      Sprinkled with star guests, the album anticipates a post-pandemic era of clubbing and hedonism

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      The Lord: Forest Nocturne album review — an enticing atmosphere of dread

      This horror movie-themed album recalls the black depths of cinema

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Maggie Rogers, Surrender review — impassioned vocals and intoxicating desires

      The singer-songwriter’s second album, about waking up to life, could do with being less mainstream

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Jack White: Entering Heaven Alive — charmingly offbeat love songs

      This acoustic album is a mellow twin to its predecessor, ‘Fear of the Dawn’, but just as rewarding

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Lizzo genre-shifts with aplomb on new album Special

      The singer draws on Prince, hip-hop and positive thinking for her fourth record

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp’s album 18 is dated and self-pitying

      The controversial actor sings on a dire collection of covers with one of rock’s greatest guitarists

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Steve Lacy: Gemini Rights — a breezy break-up album

      The Californian narrates the collapse of a relationship through 1970s soul and bossa nova

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Tami Neilson: Kingmaker review — knockout singing in a unique country-soul-gospel mix

      The singer updates classic Americana with tracks about strong women in the music industry

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      Black Midi — prog and punk collide boisterously at Somerset House

      The Londoners’ twisty, noisy songs were at once unruly and technically precise at this hometown gig

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Burna Boy: Love, Damini review — Afrofusion star and famous friends offer plenty to enjoy

      With guest spots from Ed Sheeran and J Hus, the Nigerian musician is in confident, melodious form

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Wu-Lu: Loggerhead review — an anti-gentrified soundworld

      The Brixton musician and producer’s debut conjures the stresses of urban life with a scrappy musical energy

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      Olivia Rodrigo, Hammersmith Apollo — songs of rage and hurt

      The Californian singer’s vociferous young followers screamed approval for her heartache tracks

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      InterviewMusic
      Music executive Amanda Ghost: she’s the boss — and no mistake

      She has overcome racism and sexism to become a recording artist and now head of her own production company

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Klaus Schulze finds cosmic beauty in the sci-fi-inspired Deus Arrakis

      This posthumous album from the German electronic music pioneer pays homage to Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ novels

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Gwenno: Tresor review — a dreamy set of esoteric Cornish songs

      The singer-songwriter searches for meaning in natural landscapes, passing seasons and the domestic sphere

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      FT GlobetrotterThe joy of tennis
      Four of London’s most offbeat public tennis courts

      Pay and play in the shadow of a Brutalist icon, an 18th-century church or a flyover

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      Sunday at Glastonbury — a next-level performance from Kendrick Lamar closes the festival

      The US rapper stuns; plus a blistering show from Jack White and a ‘legends’ set by Motown great Diana Ross

    • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      Glastonbury Festival: generations bond over return of a national treasure

      Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish were the oldest and youngest solo acts to headline a festival that attracted a broad spectrum of ages

    • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Pop music

      Ludovic Hunter-Tilney selects his best mid-year reads

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Beyoncé
      Beyoncé is Black America’s great communicator

      Her defiance of industry convention is an act of racial and feminist liberation — with a modern twist

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Hollie Cook’s Happy Hour, album review — a worthy modern-day example of lovers rock

      The singer’s fourth album is an adroit piece of storytelling with a sure-footed sense of timing

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Drake pioneers the unwelcome surprise album Honestly, Nevermind

      ‘It’s all good if you don’t get it yet’, the rapper announced after the release of his seventh LP. ‘We wait for you to catch up’

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      InterviewMusic
      Meet one of live music’s most powerful people: Adele’s booker, Lucy Dickins

      She is co-head of global talent giant WME’s music division and has 90 of her own clients

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