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May 12, 2012
Gossip: A Joyful Noise
New album transforms one-time riot grrrl Beth Ditto into polished chart-bait
May 12, 2012
The Imagined Village: Bending The Dark
The folk collective returns with a patchy, nautical third album
May 12, 2012
Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury – Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One
Composed on vintage synthesisers, this retro-futurist pastiche is a treat for geeks
May 12, 2012
Jazz Bigband Graz: Urban Folktales
The multi-layered big band blends brass sonorities and zippy electronica with a light, disciplined touch
May 12, 2012
Niki & The Dove: Instinct
Debut album casts duo as 1980s pop mystics
May 12, 2012
Steve Kuhn Trio: Wisteria
The group enlivens a well-trodden route with strong melodies, firm structures and a fine-tuned empathy
May 12, 2012
Bang On!: [Sic]
Liverpool rapper stages electrifying debut with raw beats and lithe rapping about “bizzies” (police) and street life
May 12, 2012
Squarepusher: Ufabulum
The album’s unpredictability pays off: the track is a vibrant study in opposites
May 12, 2012
Shostakovich and Prokofiev: The Soviet Experience
Volume two of the Pacificas’ cycle of quartets adds up to another powerful listening experience
May 12, 2012
Vusi Mahlasela: Say Africa
The singer-songwriter delivers an intensely South African album in sound
May 12, 2012
Britten/Finzi: Serenade, Nocturne/Dies Natalis; Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
English composer is enjoying unprecedented exposure as these two new CDs testify
May 5, 2012
Sunday Driver: The Mutiny
Fusion band mix Victorian waltz and Music Hall stylings with sitar and tabla
May 5, 2012
Diabel Cissokho: Kanabory Siyama
Artist’s first solo album bolsters his kora playing and singing with electric guitar and bass and a female chorus
May 5, 2012
Gallon Drunk: The Road Gets Darker from Here
Frontman James Johnston helms a trip into the sludgy Stooges garage-punk
May 5, 2012
Ren Harvieu: Through the Night
Orchestral arrangements and soaring vocals cast the 21-year-old as a modern-day Petula Clark
May 5, 2012
Richard Hawley: Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Lyrics about young men ‘fighting and losing their lives’ hint at links between Vietnam and now Afghanistan
May 5, 2012
Keane: Strangeland
The Sussex trio liven up their earnest soft-rock with a dash of 1980s synth-pop
May 5, 2012
Damon Albarn: Dr Dee
Album is a curious experiment, combining pastiches of 16th-century church music and madrigals with melancholy 1970s folk-pop
May 5, 2012
Ulysses Owens: Unanimous
The up-and-coming drummer yields a crisp and rooted mainstream set
May 5, 2012
George Crowley Quartet: Paper Universe
The UK saxophonist sees similarities between academic life and the deadline-driven world of the professional musician
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