Yaeji: What We Drew 우리가 그려왔던 review – dance music for an existential crisis

Straddling the blurry line between dream pop and DIY house, the Korean-American’s first full-length effort is a diaristic work of startling emotional clarity

Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia review – a true pop visionary

Britain’s biggest female star tightens her grip on the crown with a viscerally brilliant second album

Roger and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours review – an intimate conversation

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Låpsley: Through Water review – intensely poetic and powerful

Låpsley’s second album is stripped of collaborators, but its clean aesthetic highlights the scars of real experience

Jon Hopkins review – recital turns rave as fans embrace one last gig

His music has been criticised as being too cerebral to connect with on a visceral level, but try telling that to this crowd

Jax Jones review – gym-playlist workouts from potent hitmaker

The London chart fixture needs to add some danger and mayhem to his efficiently delivered series of set pieces

Grimes: Miss Anthropocene review – a deep, dark trip

“I’ll never be your dream girl,” sang Grimes on the last line of her aggressively poppy 2015 album Art Angels. On her fifth record, the Canadian producer embodies a living nightmare: Miss Anthropocene, goddess of climate change. So Heavy I … Continue reading →

Vladislav Delay: Rakka review – techno from the end of the world

Inspired by the arctic tundra and the climate crisis, the Finnish producer’s angriest work to date is a mix of unstable, deconstructed beats and bludgeoning noise

Caribou: Suddenly review – perfectly imperfect pop

Dan Snaith’s project returns after five years away to confront grief and family, beautifully warping songs that are drenched in melody

Sightless Pit: Grave of a Dog review – witchy trio unleash hell

The underground supergroup bin their guitars in favour of obscure sound-making – and conjure a gloriously hellish mood

Grimes: Miss Anthropocene review – a toxicity report on modern celebrity

Notionally a concept album about the goddess of climate crisis, the Canadian’s fifth album is actually a compellingly chaotic statement about her own private life

Pi’erre Bourne review – rapper-producer with an eye on Kanye’s crown

Known for beats for 21 Savage, Young Thug and Chance the Rapper, the South Carolinian producer dances gracefully through genres in his live show

Moses Boyd: Dark Matter review – party-facing solo debut

Moses Boyd is a drummer in the same way Questlove from the Roots is a drummer, which is to say that the twice Mobo-winning 28-year-old Londoner is a producer-composer-collaborator-influencer not bound by the kit surrounding him. A progenitor of the … Continue reading →