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Album: Debby Friday - The Starrr of the Queen of Life

Thomas H Green

Debby Friday is a Nigerian-Canadian singer-producer who found some success a couple of years ago with her debut album Good Luck. It won the Best Electronic Album 2023 Polaris Prize, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy or Brit. That album had a moody rock-tronic feel.

Album: Indigo de Souza - Precipice

Thomas H Green

Indigo de Souza, a singer from North Carolina, has established some reputation, mostly in the States, for combining indie, pop and emotionally open lyrical heft. This is her fourth album, but her first on a larger label, Loma Vista (she was previously on Bright Eyes-associated Saddle Creek). On Precipice she lays down a fusion of chart-style femme-pop and heartfelt guitar anthems.

Album: Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does...

Thomas H Green

There can be few musicians on the planet from a more storied musical dynasty than Mádé Kuti. He is the son of Femi, the grandson of Fela. He grew up...

Album: Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper

Guy Oddy

Great (and not so great) bands reforming, either in the studio or in the live arena, is something of a trend at the moment. However, who would have...

Album: Paul Weller - Find El Dorado

Joe Muggs

Paul Weller occupies a strange place in the cultural sphere. Especially since he was adopted as an elder statesman of Britpop in the mid 1990s, he’s...

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Blu-ray: The Rebel / The Punch and Judy Man

Graham Rickson

Tony Hancock's two film outings, newly remastered

Album: Spafford Campbell - Tomorrow Held

Tim Cumming

The young duo extend folk’s boundaries into an expansive contemporary chamber music

Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams

Liz Thomson

A remarkable collaboration across the ages

Album: Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

Thomas H Green

Plastic-bombastic TikTok pop euphoria for the emotionally incontinent

Album: Slikback - Attrition

Joe Muggs

Decades-deep electronic darkness from Kenyan sculptor of dystopias

Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone

Guy Oddy

Veteran heads lay down a hypnotic gumbo of cool funkiness

Blu-ray: Heart of Stone

Graham Rickson

Deliciously dark fairy tale from post-war Eastern Europe

Album: Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last

Peter Quinn

Sophomore album embraces horn-driven grooves and genre-blending experimentation

Album: Wet Leg - moisturizer

Kathryn Reilly

A perfectly formed classic that will definitely be on those album of the year lists

Album: Tami Neilson - Neon Cowgirl

Thomas H Green

New Zealand country queen's latest chimes with America's heartland bars and highways

Album: Mark Stewart - The Fateful Symmetry

Joe Muggs

The Bristol agit-prop hero on philosophical form on his final album

Album: Gwenno - Utopia

Kieron Tyler

The Welsh musical explorer surveys her life

Blu-ray: A Hard Day's Night

John Carvill

The 'Citizen Kane' of jukebox musicals? Richard Lester's film captures Beatlemania in full flight

Album: Olafur Arnalds and Talos - A Dawning

Tim Cumming

Shimmery, shiny Icelandic-Irish ambience steeped in beauty

Album: Barry Can't Swim - Loner

Kathryn Reilly

Dive in to some sizzling summer dance music

Album: Kesha - .

Thomas H Green

After a decade of tribulation, a new beginning matches stadium heft to club-pop bounce

Album: Claudia Brücken - Night Mirror

Thomas H Green

The Propaganda singer returns with an album of elegant, varied grown-up pop

Album: Mocky - Music Will Explain (Choir Music Vol. 1)

Joe Muggs

Is the Canadian polymath hiding behind his exquisite production and arrangement skill?

Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

Kieron Tyler

A singular sonic auteur reshapes traditional Celtic music

Album: JF Robitaille & Lail Arad - Wild Moves

Thomas H Green

A set of graceful, wry melancholy from an Anglo-Canadian singer-songwriter duo

Album: Lorde - Virgin

James Mellen

Sombre self-examination and scratchy cellos fail to ignite on the New Zealander's new LP

Album: Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums

Liz Thomson

The Boss: Finding joy in imperfections

Album: BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation

Kieron Tyler

Brian Christinzio exorcises childhood trauma

Album: Durand and the Indications - Flowers

Mark Kidel

Languorous neo-soul to chill by

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