Subtlety in pop music is often underrated, but these beautiful songs show how it can be successful, stylish and memorable ...

Most of us hate the end of January. The new year’s sparkle has often run flat, like a drink left on the windowsill and discovered weeks later – with many ideas for new starts or reinventions in the ...

A companion piece to Close, 37 years on, this family affair is a blend of youth and experience that showcases a voice that has never sounded better ...

The UK rapper’s debut album definitely wasn’t rushed, but how great is it?

Whether it be under the name Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Music or, most frequently, Bonnie Prince Billy, Will Oldham can lay claim to being one of the most prolific artists of our times. Barely a ...

Her first album in five years feels as much like a physical sensation as a sonic one, a cohesive and transcendent artistic experience It has been five long years since FKA twigs last graced us with an ...

Landfill is a curious title for Young Knives‘ sixth album. The duo came to prominence in that strange time in the early 2000s, just before Arctic Monkeys arrived on the scene, and was later denigrated ...

An intoxicating mix of folk and free jazz on the Vermont native’s 10th album finds him creating something very much on his own terms It’s fair to say that folk music is steeped in Sam Amidon‘s blood.

Finn Andrews and his band The Veils are into the third decade of an increasingly fruitful career, described by the singer as ‘disconcertingly long’. Having recently turned 40, Andrews has resolved to ...