Electronic music
Jazz, Old Norse and ‘troll tunes’: the strange, stunning music of Shetland
It’s 550 years since the islands became part of Scotland, and the archipelago is still not for the faint-hearted. But it has inspired its own diverse music, where fiddles and accordions meet the sub-bass of the sea
Jude Rogers
20, Jan, 2022 @3:00 PM
Bonobo: Fragments review – a wondrous nirvana
Si Green’s celestial, swooning seventh studio album is a restful ambient dream
Damien Morris
16, Jan, 2022 @3:00 PM
The Weeknd: Dawn FM review – shimmering pop in extremis
Abel Tesfaye goes to the brink, and back to the 80s, on his most cohesive album yet
Michael Cragg
16, Jan, 2022 @1:00 PM
FKA twigs: Caprisongs review – party tunes and hard-won notes to self
The left-field singer makes a bid for the mainstream with hook-centric pop that centres on self-knowledge not trauma
Kitty Empire
15, Jan, 2022 @2:00 PM
Jazz, R&B and ‘sophistifunk’: James Mtume’s greatest recordings
From his Afrocentric jazz with Miles Davis and Lonnie Liston Smith to his chart hits for Roberta Flack and Stephanie Mills, we celebrate the best of the late musician
Alexis Petridis
11, Jan, 2022 @3:03 PM
An underwater concert with pool noodle seats: drippy idea or splashy fun?
British DJ Leon Vynehall’s Floors Of Heaven: Submersive Study sees ambient music pumped into the waters of Sydney’s Boy Charlton pool
Kate Hennessy
07, Jan, 2022 @7:00 PM
The Weeknd: Dawn FM review – a stunning display of absolute pop prowess
If this is the end for the Weeknd, what a way to bow out. Abel Tesfaye confirms his status as an all-time great with an album of icy 80s-inflected splendour
Alexis Petridis
07, Jan, 2022 @2:29 PM
Neo rhythms: why techno music and The Matrix are in perfect harmony
The films’ heroes look like they’ve just stepped off the Berghain dancefloor – and the connection isn’t merely aesthetic. The series shares the genre’s philosophy of liberation
Liam Cagney
23, Dec, 2021 @2:41 PM
The 10 best contemporary albums of 2021
The year’s best experiments ranged from Blank Gloss’s ambient Americana to Space Afrika’s manipulated Manchester field recordings and Floating Points’ extraordinary electronic masterpiece
John Lewis
22, Dec, 2021 @1:00 PM
New artists join Adele and Dua Lipa on list for first non-gendered Brit awards
As the music prizes strive for inclusivity, first-timers Self Esteem and Central Cee make the shortlist along with veterans Abba
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
18, Dec, 2021 @6:21 PM
‘Everyone was partying for their life’: Bang Gang, bloghouse and the indie sleaze of the mid-2000s
A new book charts the rise and fall of an internet-fuelled electronic music movement that sent Australian artists global and set Sydney’s Kings Cross alight
Katie Cunningham
17, Dec, 2021 @7:00 PM
Jerusalem in My Heart: Qalaq review – bearing witness to a manufactured apocalypse
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and avant garde peers collaborate on a defiant, vulnerable lament for Lebanon
Tayyab Amin
16, Dec, 2021 @10:00 AM
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