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  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Best new album releases of the week
    Shania Twain: Queen of Me — country-pop star returns with attempted rebrand

    Toes curl and Gen Z slang is mangled as the Canadian singer attempts a pop makeover in her sixth album

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Best new album releases of the week
    Five stars for Raye’s exhilarating debut My 21st Century Blues

    Having broken free from Polydor, the Londoner takes aim at the music industry with dramatic songs and versatile vocals

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Best new album releases of the week
    Stephen Hough brings exquisite playing to Mompou’s Música callada

    Precision and crystalline sound quality pay dividends in these piano miniatures

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Best new album releases of the week
    Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina — a compelling showcase for the edgy drummer

    Multiple tracking allows the drummer’s vibraphone playing to come across sharply

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Best new album releases of the week
    The Reytons: What’s Rock and Roll? — spirited indie revivalism

    The Yorkshire fourpiece resurrect the genre with jostling, lively songs

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Best new album releases of the week
    Sam Smith throws musical caution to the wind on Gloria

    The singer has broken new ground, but their fourth album is less revelatory

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Review
    The King’s Singers and Fretwork celebrate Renaissance composers in Tom and Will

    This entertaining album marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Review
    Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya: The Sound of the Soul review — expansive Hindustani music

    The centrepiece of the album sees the guitarist stretching out across a 40-minute track

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Review
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say defy expectations in Janáček, Brahms and Bartók

    Performances move from delicate to intense in this album of violin and piano works

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Best new album releases of the week
    Kenny Barron: The Source album review — shape-shifting modernism

    The pianist’s first solo piano album in more than 40 years conveys his urbane angularities with elegance

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Best new album releases of the week
    Måneskin: Rush! — strutting songs of sex ’n’ drugs from Eurovision winners

    The foursome’s new record offers plenty of fun, at least until the buzz wears off

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Review
    Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12 — the sound of ongoing life

    The solo musician and Oscar-winning composer has made a fascinating album of instrumentals

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    Review
    Billy Nomates: Cacti — spiky, inventive and introspective

    The Bristol-based singer-songwriter is fuller-sounding and less abrasive in her second album

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    Review
    Margo Price: Strays — off-piste country music with sharp lyricism

    The singer collaborates with Jeremy Ivey on an album of porous influences and guest stars

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    Review
    Stile Antico celebrates composer William Byrd’s 400th anniversary

    The album’s expressive singing weaves short pieces into one of his great Catholic Masses

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    Review
    Raül Refree explores iciness and isolation in El Espacio Entre

    Songs from the composer/producer’s moody film soundtracks conjure a lonely atmosphere

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Review
    Vulfpeck: Schvitz — inventive musicianship and good humour

    The American foursome’s latest combines retro-funk and soul while putting a smile on listener’s faces

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Review
    Iggy Pop: Every Loser — the rock wild man retains his allure

    The former Stooges singer circles back to the proto-punk racket he made 50 years ago

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Review
    The Heavy Hitters celebrate no-frills modernism in debut album

    The band’s first release delivers an all-original set that gives traditional virtues a contemporary twist

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Review
    Intrigue and violence in Caroline Shaw: The Wheel from I Giardini

    Making much of little is the discipline that binds tender pieces together

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Review
    Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers brings global female voices to dub music

    The producer is redressing the genre’s gender imbalance with guest stars from around the world

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Review
    Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965 — an intriguing time capsule

    An early tape captures the young musician performing songs later recorded by The Velvet Underground

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Review
    Pentangle’s changing line-up captured on Through the Ages: 1984-1995

    This six-CD box set traces the band’s Ship of Theseus years as original members were replaced

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Review
    Concerto Italiano play boldly in Monteverdi: Seventh Book of Madrigals

    Rinaldo Alessandrini’s period ensemble is joined by two stylish tenors in this highly recommended set

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
    Best jazz albums of 2022

    Improvising saxophonists, ghostly tunes and rediscovered recordings go into our critic’s choice

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