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Hatful of Hollow is The Smiths’ best album because it’s their most innocent. This may seem an untoward claim for this most ...

After two decades’ revelling in the possibilities of bleak heaviness, The Body return with dub-infused bangers for a ...

A labour of love from Soundway records compiling funky hits from Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and more ...

As Paul Weller closes a UK tour in London, Fergal Kinney considers the decades long appeal of the Surrey singer-songwriter, ...

Norman Willmore and Corrie Dick speak to Gail Tasker about the unique weirdness of Shetland's folk music, and their debut ...

The Experience of Ecstasy, philiosopher Simon Critchley explains why the only proof of animism he knows is music ...

Two classically-trained musicians steeped in free improvisation somehow come up with the offbeat pop record you didn't know ...

sofi, one of the figures on the 2024/25 SHAPE+ rosters of artists, has a new album on the way, titled AZE. Set for release ...

The Beirut-based artist takes the accordion out of the beer halls of Bavaria and into the wide-open spaces of ambient ...

Where to, musician? In his magisterial work, Music In The Balkans, Professor Jim Samson traces some of the region’s musical ...

Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast, author S.H. Fernando Jr. takes us through some of the defining cuts from the seminal ...