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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Shania Twain: Queen of Me — country-pop star returns with attempted rebrand

      Toes curl and Gen Z slang is mangled as the Canadian singer attempts a pop makeover in her sixth album

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Five stars for Raye’s exhilarating debut My 21st Century Blues

      Having broken free from Polydor, the Londoner takes aim at the music industry with dramatic songs and versatile vocals

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Stephen Hough brings exquisite playing to Mompou’s Música callada

      Precision and crystalline sound quality pay dividends in these piano miniatures

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina — a compelling showcase for the edgy drummer

      Multiple tracking allows the drummer’s vibraphone playing to come across sharply

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      The Reytons: What’s Rock and Roll? — spirited indie revivalism

      The Yorkshire fourpiece resurrect the genre with jostling, lively songs

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Sam Smith throws musical caution to the wind on Gloria

      The singer has broken new ground, but their fourth album is less revelatory

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Review
      The King’s Singers and Fretwork celebrate Renaissance composers in Tom and Will

      This entertaining album marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Review
      Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya: The Sound of the Soul review — expansive Hindustani music

      The centrepiece of the album sees the guitarist stretching out across a 40-minute track

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Review
      Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say defy expectations in Janáček, Brahms and Bartók

      Performances move from delicate to intense in this album of violin and piano works

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Review
      Kenny Barron: The Source album review — shape-shifting modernism

      The pianist’s first solo piano album in more than 40 years conveys his urbane angularities with elegance

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Review
      Måneskin: Rush! — strutting songs of sex ’n’ drugs from Eurovision winners

      The foursome’s new record offers plenty of fun, at least until the buzz wears off

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Review
      Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12 — the sound of ongoing life

      The solo musician and Oscar-winning composer has made a fascinating album of instrumentals

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Review
      Billy Nomates: Cacti — spiky, inventive and introspective

      The Bristol-based singer-songwriter is fuller-sounding and less abrasive in her second album

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Review
      Margo Price: Strays — off-piste country music with sharp lyricism

      The singer collaborates with Jeremy Ivey on an album of porous influences and guest stars

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Review
      Stile Antico celebrates composer William Byrd’s 400th anniversary

      The album’s expressive singing weaves short pieces into one of his great Catholic Masses

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Review
      Raül Refree explores iciness and isolation in El Espacio Entre

      Songs from the composer/producer’s moody film soundtracks conjure a lonely atmosphere

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Review
      Vulfpeck: Schvitz — inventive musicianship and good humour

      The American foursome’s latest combines retro-funk and soul while putting a smile on listener’s faces

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Review
      Iggy Pop: Every Loser — the rock wild man retains his allure

      The former Stooges singer circles back to the proto-punk racket he made 50 years ago

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Review
      The Heavy Hitters celebrate no-frills modernism in debut album

      The band’s first release delivers an all-original set that gives traditional virtues a contemporary twist

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Review
      Intrigue and violence in Caroline Shaw: The Wheel from I Giardini

      Making much of little is the discipline that binds tender pieces together

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Review
      Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers brings global female voices to dub music

      The producer is redressing the genre’s gender imbalance with guest stars from around the world

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Review
      Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965 — an intriguing time capsule

      An early tape captures the young musician performing songs later recorded by The Velvet Underground

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Review
      Pentangle’s changing line-up captured on Through the Ages: 1984-1995

      This six-CD box set traces the band’s Ship of Theseus years as original members were replaced

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Review
      Concerto Italiano play boldly in Monteverdi: Seventh Book of Madrigals

      Rinaldo Alessandrini’s period ensemble is joined by two stylish tenors in this highly recommended set

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
      Best jazz albums of 2022

      Improvising saxophonists, ghostly tunes and rediscovered recordings go into our critic’s choice

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