The Guardian

• Victoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns review – a musical promise fulfilled | The Guardian | Jan. 18, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
The Chris Martin-feted Spanish American singer-songwriter delivers a debut album that is mainstream pop fare but packed with variety and nuance

• Rose Gray: Louder, Please review – escapist dance-pop fizzes with inventiveness | The Guardian | Jan. 17, 2025, 8 a.m.
The London musician’s assured debut runs the gamut from aggressive jungle to uplifting house, toggling between hedonism and introspection

• Ethel Cain: Perverts review – a gothic follow-up determined to stay underground | The Guardian | Jan. 12, 2025, 1 p.m.
Ambient soundscapes dominate US singer-songwriter Hayden Silas Anhedönia’s resolutely avant garde second album

• The Guide #167: Could Kendrick Lamar’s GNX jumpstart a new wave of surprise releases? | The Guardian | Dec. 6, 2024, 1:31 p.m.
In this week’s newsletter: Just when it seemed there was nothing shocking about an unexpected album drop, Lamar made a truly transgressive move

• Father John Misty: Mahashmashana review – a superb chronicler of life’s perverseness | The Guardian | Nov. 29, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Josh Tillman ties together the misery, wit and showmanship of his previous albums on a set laced with strings and swagger

• Father John Misty: Mahashmashana review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week | The Guardian | Nov. 21, 2024, noon
The singer-songwriter sticks to apocalyptic first principles on his sixth album, couching contemporary chaos in soaring ballads and discofied yacht rock