Americana

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Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood review – sprightly Americana with added poise
Katie Crutchfield’s latest album swaps the strung-out drama of its acclaimed predecessor for precision and broad relatability

Damien Morris

24, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood review – intimate Americana tackling life’s great tangle
Katie Crutchfield’s sixth album refines the breezy country of her 2020 breakthrough Saint Cloud and finds her as compelled by the complexities of life as its eases

Kate Solomon

22, Mar, 2024 @12:44 PM

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Oliver Anthony review – Rich Men North of Richmond star stirs the pot
The country singer, whose rootsy anti-elites anthem was a huge US hit, is clearly talented but his disavowal of politics is not very persuasive

Claire Biddles

08, Feb, 2024 @1:13 PM

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Post your questions for Sheryl Crow
Whether you want to know how Tuesday Night Music Club sounds to the singer-songwriter 30 years on, ask her about her all-star collaborators or hear more about her new album, C’mon, C’mon and ask

Laura Snapes

25, Jan, 2024 @5:17 PM

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Jess Williamson review – silken-voiced singer embraces new upbeat worldview
Alone on the stage with her guitar and iPhone drums, the US singer traverses country, folk and pop with a rich voice that sneers, flutters and soars

Kate Solomon

17, Jan, 2024 @12:05 PM

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Molly Tuttle review – galloping bluegrass as fun as a campfire jam
The US singer-songwriter is a virtuoso guitarist – with a galvanising charm that electrifies her audience

Sophie Walker

14, Jan, 2024 @2:22 PM

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From Britney to Germán Bringas: the best old music our writers discovered in 2023
Our belated discoveries included some giant hits of the 80s and 90s as well as little noticed Moroccan genius and Polish post-punk

Aneesa Ahmed, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Katie Hawthorne, Elle Hunt, Tim Jonze, Ammar Kalia, Sasha Mistlin, Alexis Petridis, Dave Simpson, Laura Snapes and Joe Stone

26, Dec, 2023 @6:00 PM

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The 50 best albums of 2023, No 5 – Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Evoking Joni Mitchell’s Hejira, this intimate, enigmatic and intoxicating album is an understated masterpiece

Laura Snapes

18, Dec, 2023 @3:00 PM

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Harp: Albion review – former Midlake frontman traipses through twilight
Tim Smith’s first album with Kathi Zung takes inspiration from William Blake and the Cure to create a landscape of 80s reverb and ghostly vocals

Katie Hawthorne

24, Nov, 2023 @8:30 AM

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‘My digestive system was a volcano’: indie star Youth Lagoon on surviving chronic illness to make a masterpiece
After taking heartburn medicine, Trevor Powers was laid low for months, his voice destroyed. He explains how music purged his darkest thoughts

Lindesay Irvine

08, Nov, 2023 @1:00 PM

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Mitski: how the US songwriter scored the year’s quietest global chart smash
An outlier amid pop stars and club bangers, My Love Mine All Mine is getting millions of streams a day. Its singer is reaching new fans – and repairing her relationship with old ones

Laura Snapes

13, Oct, 2023 @10:00 AM

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Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We review – moving, exquisitely measured Americana
The Japanese-American singer-songwriter sounds deceptively sweet on this lush, contemplative album largely recorded in Nashville

Kitty Empire

17, Sep, 2023 @8:00 AM

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