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Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

Arts writer and pop critic

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney has been writing for the FT since 1998.

In 2014 he won the London Press Club’s Arts Reviewer of the year award. He lives in London.

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
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    The Who: WHO

    Roger Daltrey can still turn in a full-throated vocal while Pete Townshend plays guitar with customary punchiness

  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Camila Cabello: Romance

    The singer’s breathy voice is too insubstantial to stamp herself on these factory-pop products

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    Hannah Diamond emerges, flaws and all, at Fire in London

    The singer was revealed as a flesh-and-blood figure amid all the digital trickery

  • Monday, 2 December, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    Lewis Capaldi — can his stage act keep up with the speed of his ascent?

    The chart-topping Scottish singer struggled through a faltering gig at Brixton Academy, London

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    Music
    Rewritten song lyrics spark frosty reception

    The dilemma of remaking ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ for the #Metoo era

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Czarface: The Odd Czar Against Us

    The hip-hop group swap raps like a tag team, use clever turntablism and a superb verbal flow, and pay tribute to the comfort of sofas

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Various: Frozen II

    ‘Let It Go’ singer Idina Menzel casts her voice into the furthest reaches of vocal melodrama on ‘Into the Unknown’

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Traversable Wormhole: Regions of Time

    The music is dark and propulsive, remorseless rather than over-frantic, with pulsing beats and echoing acid house effects

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    FKA Twigs kicks off tour with a triumph of style and substance at Brixton Academy

    The singer’s new show is a visually impressive and musically daring affair

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  • Monday, 25 November, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    Steve Lacy makes his charisma and idiosyncratic talent felt in London

    The singer, guitarist and rapper gave a dynamic performance at the Forum

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance

    Following the indomitable ‘You Want It Darker’, remaining recordings are turned into graceful, flowing songs

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Beck: Hyperspace

    The songs are polished but low-key, with several tracks aiming for the strung-out introspection of a Frank Ocean tune

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    Best Books of the Year 2019
    Best books of 2019: Pop

    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney selects his must-read titles

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Coldplay shake things up on new album Everyday Life

    The band balance contradictory urges by both playing it safe and taking risks on a record of two halves

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    Björk’s most elaborate stage concert yet falls flat

    The Icelandic singer’s Cornucopia tour fails to fill the space of London’s O2 Arena despite lavish visuals and a video message from Greta Thunberg

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    DJ Shadow: Our Pathetic Age

    A 90-minute whopper of 1990s rappers taking on today’s tech-dominated world

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Tindersticks: No Treasure But Hope

    Enigmatic and deep lyricism are at the fore of the Nottingham-formed band’s latest album

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Céline Dion: Courage

    The Canadian’s first English-language album in six years takes on powerful topics with full-throated commitment

  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    AJ Tracey rises to the top rank at Alexandra Palace, London

    The first of two shows at the venue revealed the scale of the rapper’s ambition

  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    Life of a Song
    ’Tain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It) — Ella Fitzgerald popularised this classic swing tune

    The song also introduced the wider world to a hip new slang term

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    FKA Twigs: Magdalene

    Lyrics are candid and introspective while minimalist rhythms come cloaked in layers of sound

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Kele Okereke: 2042

    Songs about gay hustlers and smooth disco pick-ups sit alongside an interlude of a sampled speech by an MP

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    SebastiAn: Thirst

    Songs are not as solipsistic as the cover suggests and include a saccharine refrain with an Afrobeats theme

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    FT SeriesMeet the NextGen
    Pop in the 2020s: how music — and fandom — is changing

    Three trends to watch: the rise of teen producers, the new fandom, and what AI means for music

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
    ReviewMusic
    Charli XCX, Brixton Academy, London — this is what the future sounds like

    The singer combined her modernist approach to music with good old-fashioned showmanship

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