New album: Fourteen years after their award-winning album Raising Sand, the pair reunite with another very fine covers album, ably produced by T Bone Burnett, of blues, country, soul, but also now infusing English folk
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Album review: A decade after the American singer-songwriter’s acclaimed second album, seven wonderfully written songs are reissued alongside versions by contrasting guests including Fiona Apple, IDLES, and Lucinda Williams
Read moreNew albums: BC Camplight, Ezra Furman, Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes, Hazel English, Lucinda Williams, Santrofi, Lennon Stella, Kirsty Merryn, Sneakbo, Joe Hisaishi, Pole
This week’s roundup includes the finest yet from humorously dark BC Camplight, the Sex Education soudntrack by Ezra Furman, transcendant pop from Hazel English and a gorgeous compilation by the Studio Ghibili composer Joe Hisaishi
Read moreNew albums: International Teachers of Pop, Yak, LCD Soundsystem, Elder Island, Mercury Rev (& various), Flat Worms, Jessica Pratt, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Panda Bear, Lemonheads
Electronic pop from the International Teacher and Elder Island, Yak’s long -awaited indie, covers by Mercury Rev and Lemonheads, slow beauty by Jessica Pratt and lo-fi live studio recordings by LCD Soundsystem are among this week’s bumper roundup
Read moreNew albums: The The, John Carpenter, Wu-Tang Clan, Destroyer, Lucinda Williams, The White Stripes, The Smiths
Something of a throwback week of new and old: releases from The The, Destroyer and Wu-Tang Clan, plus compilations and box sets of The White Stripes John Peel sessions, John Carpenter film music and a Smiths classic
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