LIVE: Shabaka Hutchings with Britten Sinfonia, Live at the Barbican

Finding a meeting place between jazz and classical is not as easy as the formal elements might suggest, but in this one-off collaboration for EFG London Jazz Festival, Hutchings and Britten Sinfonia created a real accessibility to a performance which might otherwise have felt somewhat like another world.

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In Review: Molchat Doma – Monument

The Belarusian synth-pop purveyors’ new album reflects the estrangement felt by a country at war with itself; a cold-wave, industrial daydream, a lost place between perestroika and the Information Age, steeped in the shadows of its past.

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Breaking Through | 7 Questions with King Hannah

On their eve of the release of debut EP, Tell Me Your Mind And I’ll Tell You Mine, on City Slang, we spoke to the Liverpool duo about influences, introductions, and their instant recognition.

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In Review: Reptaliens – Wrestling

On their new EP, the Portland husband and wife duo-turned-band take their fascination with sci-fi, conspiracy theories, cults, and transhumanism to existential levels – it’s mechanic and weird, but that’s absolutely the point.

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In Review: Kylie Minogue – DISCO

Kylie’s record-breaking fifteenth (fifteenth?!) album gets the glitterball spinning, inducing some serious mum, or dad, dancing whilst we see out this dreadful year. Sequins and marabou feathers at the ready, we need this.

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