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‘10,000 tiny instruments’: how Lego made the experimental album of 2021
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Out of my headphones comes a flow of odd, weirdly tactile sound: what could be an army of ants marching across a plain of contact mics, a landslide of scree recorded from a mile away, or perhaps the first field record...
‘Her playfulness is infectious’: meet the 12-year-old behind 2022’s most beguiling album
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Sam Gendel and Antonia Cytrynowicz are two of experimental pop music’s most unlikely creative partners. Gendel, 35, is the Los Angeles saxophonist who has lent his talents to records by Vampire Weekend, Maggie Rogers ...
'Ek verkies om die lewe met gevaar en duisternis te leef': Jessie Buckley en Bernard Butler oor onklaarrakings, Oscars en hul album
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In ’n stampvol opnameateljee in Londen, 'n vrou se stem ontplooi uit luidsprekers, vul elke atoom in die lug. Anderkant 'n glasmuur is sy skaars sigbaar in halfdonker, omring deur drie musikante op klavier, trompet...
'Ek dink ek kan myself liefhê, uiteindelik': Self Esteem op 2021 se album van die jaar
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Prioritize Pleasure is die Guardian se album van die jaar. Hoe voel jy?Dis fokken cool, innit [lag hard]. My PR het my vertel by my optrede in Manchester en toe net geloop, soos die uiteindelike mikrofoondruppel. Ook, ek het...
‘It was the easiest thing I’ve done’: how the dad of a rock star wrote his first album at 72
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Nepotism in the music industry is nothing new, but using your connections to get your father a record deal is surely a far rarer occurrence. Egter, that’s just what Connan Mockasin did for new album It’s Just Wind. ...
Abrahamsen: Schnee review
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The dryly factual subtitle of Hans Abrahamsen’s Schnee, “10 canons for nine instruments”, hardly hints at the magical sonorities and glittering reflections explored in this 55-minute work, which was composed between 2...
Adele is right – an unshuffled album is the proper way to listen
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When you are the most powerful, popular artist in the world, you can insist on anything. And so Adele has persuaded Spotify to hide its shuffle button, to encourage listeners to listen to her new album 30 - en, presu...
Adele reveals tracklist for comeback album, including song titled ‘I Drink Wine’
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British soul superstar Adele has revealed the tracklist for her much-anticipated comeback album, which will feature songs titled I Drink Wine, Can I Get It and Cry Your Heart Out. Her fourth studio album, getiteld 30, ek....
Adele’s divorce album is a slyly subversive fit for a Vegas residency
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Las Vegas is a comfortable place to land for pop stars. It’s where you go to bask in the validation of a job well done, to rest on a solid legacy at a point where the future may have become less certain and any tentat...
Aisha (the black album); Putting a Face On review – more pointed monologues
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The Old Vic has been acute with its monologues: not too musey, all pointed. Taken together, these two new pieces of writing, commissioned for International Women’s Day, last barely half an hour, but they deliver reson...
Alexandre Kantorow: Brahms review
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Laas jaar, Alexandre Kantorow released a recording including Brahms’s Piano Sonata No 2 alongside works by Bartók and Liszt, and announced himself as a Brahms interpreter of unusual insight and distinctiveness. This n...
Alfie Templeman: Mellow Moon review
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The debut album by Alfie Templeman was launched not with a lavish party or extensive and spendy press campaign but a gig built within the sandbox video game Minecraft – or “an immersive music festival in space”. Users...
Alicia Keys: Sleutels hersiening
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Verlede maand, Alicia Keys het 'n onderhoud aan 'n vrouetydskrif gelewer waarin sy haar lewe tydens die pandemie uiteengesit het. Enigiemand wat dit die afgelope twee jaar moeilik gevind het om hulself te motiveer – eers verlam deur ...
Alicia Keys: Keys review – dubbel album wys twee gesigte
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Alicia Keys se agtste album – die opvolg van 2020 se gas-swaar Alicia – is 'n vreemde dier. 'n Dubbelalbum van 26 snitte, die eerste kant bevat 'n reeks liedjies, (gefaktureer as oorspronklikes) wat 'n meer gestroopte rug vertoon...
Anaïs Mitchell: Anaïs Mitchell review
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As the 2000s turned into the 2010s, Anaïs Mitchell seemed an easy artist to peg. Her career was plodding along in unassuming style, somewhere in the region where country and folk meet alt-rock. She had well-reviewed a...
Animal Collective: Time Skiffs review
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From its title, to its lyrics – which variously advise listeners to treat “every day as an image of a moment that’s passed”, “put the baggage down” and count one’s blessings compared to those who “find their way in a ...