The record label founder has a glittering CV and Adele on his roster but is going back into the studio to make his ‘rave album’
Music from the UK aims for maximum palatability, writes Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
Singer’s strategy to keep album off streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music pays off
A slickly assembled commercial pop product sung by a technically exceptional vocalist
The twins’ debut yokes together traditional and modern: Cuban percussion meets trip-hop and spiritual meets hip-hop bass
Singer reinvents herself as a breathy siren floating through a landscape of echoing bass and disembodied electronic tones
A sinuous mix of funk, soul and disco, too restrained to set the party alight but possessing a smooth and persuasive magnetism
The album has an itchy, compulsive energy
Damon Albarn devises a contemporary setting for the veteran soulman’s vocals
The British indie rock band continues to mine 1970s krautrock for kosmische synths
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