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Now, it seems, her time has finally come.
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A second LP from the Irish singer which feels unforced, spontaneous and timeless.
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This meditative and cinematic set is a victory for subtlety and sensitivity.
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A fine place to sample much of Smith’s considerable oeuvre.
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Former 'folktronica' maverick branches out in style
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A watershed album on the cusp between their underground appeal and stadium future.
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An undeniably impressive second album – more Philip Larkin than Mark E. Smith.
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There’s much to marvel at on Robertson’s first LP of the 21st century.
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The classic combo tasted the American condition by stirring up the soup of its past.
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They revel in their retro-rock genre with mellifluous joie de vivre.
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Confrontational South African trio strut the thin line between madness and genius.
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A fine new label debut from the composer of the Amélie soundtrack.
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A stylistic about-face from the Sea & Cake frontman on his third solo LP.
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The vocalist shows no signs of fading into well-earned retirement just yet.
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Dreamy, timeless music from the blues-tinged ethereal folk duo.
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An unexpectedly poignant turn from the indie veterans.
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Collins’ trawl through the Hitsville USA songbook is surprising and disarming.
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Two EPs combine to make a single, beguiling long-player.
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Ten tracks of timeless, simply adorned song-craft never constrained by Nashville tropes.
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Packed to the gunwales with Brill Building hooks and decorated with wafting pedal steel.
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A persuasive solo debut: confident, innovative and brimming with hooks.
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The German trio turn electronically-tinged, instrumental rock music inside out.
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Complicated, esoteric and, yes, really quite bonkers.
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Somewhere, you suspect, Tony is nodding along, approvingly.
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They may just have minted the new decade’s first essential album.
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A cavalcade of keening, copper-bottomed pop melodies.
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History tends to overlook the wilful unorthodoxy of early Keane.
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Veirs returns to the fingerpicking folk milieu that characterised her early records.
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An accomplished and alluring opening gambit.
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Their first album for five years is something of a minor triumph.
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Evokes the exotic and the awe-inducing with disarming subtlety.
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An album that reins in the band’s multi-layered opacity for a new-found airiness.
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Beguiling yet somehow unsettling textures together with the odd moment of stygian beauty.
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Bewitching instrumentals from members of Arcade Fire.
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Britfolk lifetime achievers still on form in the studio and live on this fine re-issue.