Ed Sheeran: Subtract review – easily his best ever album | Ed Sheeran

The artwork for Subtract.

Ed Sheeran famously keeps one eye on the numbers. A decade ago, he established his trademark, a pop take on the sensitive singer-songwriter trope with a healthy relationship to rap and R&B that has allowed […]

The Lemon Twigs: Everything Harmony review – rarely has stark despair sounded so lovely | Pop and rock

The artwork for Everything Harmony

Musical pastiche can be dangerous. When you go beyond having influences to embodying those influences, artists can easily slip into self-parody. You need spectacularly good songs to pull it off. The Lemon Twigs, a US […]

Adjunct Ensemble: Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy review – a disorientating act of resistance | Music

The artwork for Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy

Anyone who has heard the Beatles’ Revolution No 9 will be familiar with musique concrète: a compositional style based around the manipulation of existing recordings and found sounds, one pioneered by the likes of Pierre […]

Coronation Concert review – a cobbled-together bunch of B-listers | Music

Tiwa Savage, the sole nod to contemporary pop trends.

On Thursday night, Channel 4 News interviewed Jerub, the Nottingham-based singer tapped to perform with Pete Tong’s Ibiza Classics Orchestra at the Coronation Concert. It wasn’t entirely clear if presenter Matt Frei intended to strike […]

Agust D’s (SUGA) D-Day Review — Part 2: Stanning BTS Podcast

Agust D’s (SUGA) D-Day Review — Part 2: Stanning BTS Podcast

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Radio Public | Pocket Casts | RSS This week on Stanning BTS, the Agust D (SUGA of BTS) D-Day album review party continues! Hosts Kayla and Bethany are back to wrap up their analysis of Agust […]

Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All review – a surprisingly moving, intimate view of marriage, loss and mental health | Television

Sheeran with his wife, Cherry Seaborn.

Cheekier viewers than me might wonder how this Disney+ documentary is going to manage to fill out an entire four-part series about the singer. Sheeran is massive, the biggest male pop star in the world, […]

‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Review: A Joyous Farewell

guardians of the galaxy 3 group shot

Marvel Studios This article will contain light spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which hits theaters on May 5. Superheroes are seen as legends, myths, and icons. They’re played by square-chawed A-listers who […]

Peter Pan & Wendy review: A dark Disney update tells a new story

Peter Pan (Alexander Molony), Wendy (Ever Anderson), John Darling (Joshua Pickering), and Michael Darling (Jacobi Jupe) crouch at the top of a mossy, rocky ridge, looking over the edge in Peter Pan & Wendy

Most live-action Disney remakes feel like perfunctory re-treads. The exceptions, which are few and far between, include Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, whose emphasis on kindness through adversity makes for a wonderful addition, and David Lowery’s Pete’s […]

Bongeziwe Mabandla: amaXesha review – South African singer in his own lane | Music

Bongeziwe Mabandla: amaXesha album artwork

Over the past decade, South African singer-songwriter Bongeziwe Mabandla has been reimagining Xhosa folk music. His 2012 debut album, Umlilo, was a largely acoustic effort, combining the genre’s yearning choral harmonies with finger-strumming guitar and […]

Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! review – 21st-century disco packed with personality | Jessie Ware

The artwork for That! Feels Good!

In the wave of glitterball-dazzled pop-dance albums that sparkled a little light into 2020’s gloom, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia was the world-beating monster smash – No 1 in 15 countries, 10bn streams and counting on […]

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review – the best Star Wars game in 20 years | Games

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s opening sequence is spellbinding. Amid the sprawling megastructures of the city-planet Coruscant, a daring heist ensues. Having escaped the clutches of Darth Vader’s Imperial inquisition in the last game (Jedi: Fallen […]

Chet Baker: Blue Room review – gorgeous unreleased sessions by maestro of drowsy jazz | Music

Blue Room by Chet Baker album cover

In 1988, the Vogue photographer and occasional film-maker Bruce Weber made Let’s Get Lost, a lingeringly homoerotic but revealing documentary homage to “the white Miles”, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Like Clint Eastwood’s Charlie Parker biopic […]