Album review: The Glasgow band’s 10th album in a 25-year career is full of their usual dynamic contrasts and soaring cinematic, experimental passages, but strip back to older styles on which they build newer sounds
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Album review: Elemental, stormy, epic in its scope, the new indie-prog LP from Montreal with soaring guitar textures, falsetto, and strong falling bass lines has echoes of Mogwai and Sigur Rós, and is perfect to take on a winter walk or for a profound fireside evening
Read moreNew albums: LCD Soundsystem, Mogwai, OMD, Lone Taxidermist, David Rawlings, Downtown Boys
This week: a welcome return from James Murphy and co, erotica electronica from Natalie Sharp, acoustic work from Rawlings with Gillian Welch, a poppier Mogwai, rock/hip hop from Downtown Boys and OMD return to Kraftwerk roots
Read moreBowie to the Beach: favourite and fitting albums of 2016 – part 1
Bowie? Beyonce? There's no such thing as the best album of the year. But instead we round up favourites, apt and lesser known new albums as suggested by readers in part 1 from a profound 2016
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