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  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Simon Rattle lets his hair down with London Symphony Orchestra for Nazareno

    This energising album of jazz-related works features a Stravinsky concerto and a percussion-filled suite

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita: Echo — Welsh harp meets Senegalese kora

    The duo reunite for their third album, supported by a string section

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Harry Styles’ boy-next-door appeal persists with new album Harry’s House

    The singer comes across as warm and unspoiled in his third solo album since One Direction hung up their singlets

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Mary Halvorson explores sonic extremes in Amaryllis and Belladonna

    Two new albums mark the guitarist’s first forays into long-form composition for a quartet of strings

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Spotify record-breaker Bad Bunny returns — Un Verano Sin Ti review

    One of the biggest names in pop reaches 183mn streams in a single day with his new album of dance jams and summer anthems

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Arcadia Quartet give a first-rate performance in Weinberg: String Quartets

    This Chandos recording offers a fascinating sample of the composer’s chamber music

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Ches Smith’s Interpret It Well marries vibrant tones with a vibraphone

    The musician’s 10th release, supported by piano, guitar and viola, maintains a fascinating grip

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar evoke rituals in Dancing Under the Moon

    Wailing rhaitas meet edgy percussion as the Moroccan group draw on old musical traditions

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Radiohead spin-off The Smile release majestic debut A Light for Attracting Attention

    The band’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood and singer Thom Yorke are joined by Tom Skinner for an anything-goes album

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Florence + the Machine’s new album Dance Fever is a winner

    The band’s latest release confirms Welch’s supremacy with no-holds-barred songs of downfall and redemption

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Two stars for Arcade Fire’s baggy and bombastic new album WE

    The Canadian indie-rockers strive for the heights in their latest release but struggle to get airborne

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Soft Cell’s *Happiness Not Included defies the cynic and rewards the romantic

    The estranged 1980s synth-pop duo of Marc Almond and Dave Ball reunite for another album

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Leyla McCalla: Breaking The Thermometer — an album of Haitian history and rhythms

    The singer weaves together traditional songs, her own compositions, interviews and radio broadcasts

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Andris Nelsons’s Strauss Alliance — lush playing from two orchestras under one conductor

    The project unites his Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Tigran Hamasyan: StandArt — vivid imagination

    The pianist and composer applies his florid technique to the standard jazz repertoire of the American songbook

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Kelly Lee Owens’s LP.8 combines floaty mysticism with heavy industrial beats

    The Welsh electronic musician channels both Enya and Throbbing Gristle in her third album

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Al-Namrood release a sonic assault in Worship the Degenerate

    The eighth album from the Saudi Arabian heavy metal band ferociously blends western and eastern styles

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    A new box-set captures the fierce energy of saxophonist Albert Ayler

    The jazz musician’s avant-garde sound ripples through recordings of two 1970 concerts at the Fondation Maeght

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Christian Gerhaher tackles Schoeck’s feverish song cycle Elegie

    Strong support from the Kammerorchester Basel creates a hothouse of desolate emotion on this Sony recording

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Jasdeep Singh Degun modernises Indian classical music on Anomaly

    The British sitarist’s debut album audaciously mixes styles from the subcontinent

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    Post-punks Fontaines DC explore uprooted Irishness on Skinty Fia

    The Dublin band, now based in London, mix anger and melancholia in a well-constructed album of lyrical depth

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    James Heather: Invisible Forces — dreamy, poignant, beautiful

    The pianist incorporates a more intently autobiographical tone in his second album

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    Jazz legend Charles Mingus’s centenary celebrated with two albums

    A lost 1972 session and alternate takes from 1957 mark what would have been the composer’s 100th birthday

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    English Concert offers no weak links in Handel’s La resurrezione

    The Easter oratorio is lavishly sung and features unexpected instrumental combinations

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    Oumou Sangaré celebrates regional and national pride in Timbuktu

    The Malian singer returns with sounds and themes deeply rooted in her country

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