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Halsey
A mixture of dark and light, hope and hopelessness decorate this week’s huge roundup of releases across many genres, including oddities and eccentricities, passions and playfulness from Emimen to Ivor Cutler, Halsey to Keeley Forsyth
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Dystopia depicted: Gruff Rhys’s album Babelsberg
The first part of our annual roundup of notable albums includes several great debuts by young bands, plus work that reflects dystopian political turmoil, gender issues and growing human relationship with technology
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David Byrne. Forever positive.
This week's selection includes a first solo album for 18 years from the ex-Talking Heads frontman, the acclaimed Edinburgh tirp-hop trio, the enigmatic Manchester psych band, and a singer-songwriter
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Laurie Anderson
A cornucopia of classical, electronica, rock, pop and alt-indie decorates this week's selection
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Farewell, Mr Bowie. And thank you.
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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