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3 days ago | musicomh.com | Michael Hubbard

The Mael Brothers celebrate their highest-charting album MAD! with deep dives, hits and reciprocated love The brothers Mael arrive for two shows at London’s Hammersmith Apollo fresh from touring Japan and scoring their highest album chart position of their long career as Sparks with 28th album MAD! Another entry in the band’s prolific and excellent latter-day imperial phase that began with 2017’s Hippopotomus, it reached Number 2 – five places higher than the three studio albums that preceded...

3 days ago | musicomh.com | Ben Devlin

The late great producer broke down musical boundaries on her 2015 release. The expanded anniversary edition reminds us of a talent gone too soonTen years ago, one of experimental electronic music’s most iconic figures was an enigma. She let someone else stand behind the decks and ‘perform’ her Boiler Room set, she explored ideas of artifice and authenticity in a manner both gleeful and thought-provoking, and the majority of her fans didn’t know that SOPHIE was transgender.

5 days ago | musicomh.com | Melanie Eskenazi

High-quality offerings from the York Early Music, Ryedale, De Mowbray Music and North York Moors Chamber Music Festivals will bring summer delights. Hot on the heels of the Northern Aldborough come no fewer than four festivals offering music and artists of the highest quality, with most of the events taking place in evocative settings amidst glorious countryside.

1 week ago | musicomh.com | Melanie Eskenazi

A small village in North Yorkshire is the setting for an outstanding recital of Schumann, Brahms and others. You wait ages for a Dame, and then two show up at once. Seriously – how much persuasion did it take to bring these two Dames, to the ancient church of this idyllic but probably (to Southerners) obscure little village? Fear not, those of you from south of Doncaster – there’s barely a Yorkshire accent to be heard, and many people seem to be called Miranda or Jeremy.

1 week ago | musicomh.com | Michael Hubbard

Lean, mean music machine Trent Reznor and his cohorts fire on all cylinders in the Peel It Back tourTrent Reznor turned 60 last month, an age at which reviews are duty-bound to start mentioning that he is now a sexagenarian. On the evidence of the London date of Nine Inch Nails’ sensory-whelming Peel It Back tour, there are scant signs of the industrial titan and latter-day movie soundtrack master slowing down. On the contrary, the band’s 2025 iteration is at last an arena headliner.