How do you follow up the biggest international hit by a British artist since the mid-1990s? That was the conundrum facing Oxford four-piece Glass Animals
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Born in Busan, Turkey, trained in Warsaw and, since 2016, based in New York City, Beyza Yazgan is a pianist whose compositions seem to have
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You’re at a house in Coventry in 1989 placing the needle on a vinyl record. The grooves of the record suddenly swell up around you
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The Guardian’s music editor Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Hannah Moore discuss Brat by Charli XCX, which is set to be the defining album of 2024 and
Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive
Rieko Hirosawa sits on a stone bench outside her home, tunes her instrument and takes a deep breath. She unleashes an impossibly high note while
So good, so good, so good: Destiny’s Child’s greatest songs – ranked!
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Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
There was a point in 2022 when Glass Animals could reasonably describe themselves as the biggest British band in the world. Their single Heat Waves