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4 days ago |
theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis
Time has been particularly kind to Pulp. As Jarvis Cocker points out on Spike Island, the lead single from their first album in 24 years, their 2002 split went largely unlamented: they had already succeeded in considerably reducing the size of their audience with 1998’s claustrophobic album This Is Hardcore and 2001’s Scott Walker-produced We Love Life. An ostensibly valedictory greatest hits album spent a single week in the lower reaches of the Top 75.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis
Miley Cyrus has made some very grand claims for her ninth album. Something Beautiful is not merely a concept album, but one the 32-year-old pop star has described as “an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music”. One filled with “healing sound properties” designed to “impact frequencies in your body that make you vibrate at a different level”.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis
20. The First Sight (2016)In 2018, bassist Gerry Love departed Teenage Fanclub (TFC) after 29 years, much to fans’ despair. It’s perhaps a little romantic to see The First Sight as his parting gift, but it’s certainly an impressive closing statement of his songwriting talent: an intricate mesh of guitars, a buoyant horn section, and a typically stunning tune. 19.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis
The first sound you hear on Stereolab’s first new studio album in 15 years is a burst of arpeggiated synth tones. It sounds not unlike the once futuristic ident of a long-defunct TV channel.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis
No one could accuse Shanti Celeste of being a dance producer who indulges in lofty conceptualising about their music. Not for her, the album that represents the soundtrack to a film that hasn’t been made yet, or a sci-fi-influenced cosmic opera, or a globe-spanning travelogue inspired by the peripatetic lifestyle of a DJ. Her acclaimed 2019 debut album was called Tangerine, a title she chose because she “really like[s] fruit”.
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