Albums

The London singer’s long-awaited debut elevates her heartfelt lyricism with her intoxicating voice Hope Tala knows what it means to trust the process. The British-Jamaican artist’s soft-spoken neo-soul poetry has been drifting across airwaves and racking up streams since 2018. In that time, she’s…

A deep love for dance music and invigorating writing infuses the band’s third record with an incredible vitality This is not the album you’d expect from Bdrmm, makers of the “modern-day shoegaze classic”. The Hull quartet have stepped away from the pedalboard and onto the dancefloor for their third…

Szmierek carves his own unique lane of resonant, rave-tinged poetry set in one fictional service station Service stations are, in many ways, the epicentres of the universe. Designed for folk to catch a breather from the breakneck of the motorway, these identical buildings are often gloomy and…

On his first full-length album in 12 years, the BIGBANG rapper re-asserts his position as one of K-pop’s greatest stars When Nietzsche introduced his concept of the “Übermensch” in 1883’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, he presented the world with what he hoped would be a new goal for humanity. Translated to…

Feeling existential, uprooted and disconnected from his old working-class life thanks to his rapid rise to fame, the British guitar hero channels it all into his gorgeous third album It’s fair to say the state of Britain the last few years has been pretty grim. Grassroots venues closing down at rapid…

This spiritual successor to 2018’s ‘Saturn’ is lighter, warmer and happier – but just as brilliant Contentment surrounds Nao’s fourth album, ‘Jupiter’, aptly named after the planet of growth and joy. The record captures the angel-voiced singer returning to centre after a period of tumult surrounding…

On their third album, the Irish band aim to purge the inertia behind their previous record, ‘Gigi’s Recovery’, but occasionally fall short The Murder Capital have made no bones about the fact that they view their last album, ‘Gigi’s Recovery’, as overwritten. It suffered, they’ve said recently, from a…

The main pop girl contender sharpens her sound on her third outing, recalling 2000s Rihanna, Britney Spears and the Pussycat Dolls Tate McRae was just a toddler when the Pussycat Dolls dropped ‘Buttons’, but the nostalgic reference suits the now-21-year-old her like a glove – just one listen to…