Tristan Gatward

Katy Kirby, Blue Raspberry album review: A sharpening of queer coming-of-age indie folk

The Fauns How Lost album review: A varied shoegaze delight after a 10-year absence

Guatemalan cellist and experimental songwriter Mabe Fratti, who unlocked her potential – and learned not to give a fuck – in Mexico City

Simon Joyner live at End Of The Road: a very personal, moving experience courtesy of a genuinely unique songwriter

The London post-rock group headed to the edge of the world to create their latest record

Savage's second album is a billboard for the non-linear persistence needed to find out about yourself, and more so to then accept that person

Heavy Heavy by Young Fathers: a brilliant return and career highlight from a genuinely gold-standard band in UK music

Redcar, aka Christine and the Queens, pushed the idea of a live show in daring, freewheeling new directions in London last night

There’s not much going on right now, so you may as well catch up on June’s best albums – from DIY hip hop to ferocious metalcore

Rina Sawayama literally sprinted through a packed festival so she could play with Charli XCX before her own show

From Hinako Omori to Ditz via Kojey Radical and Kaina

Get to know one-liner machine and songwriter extraordinaire CMAT – just don’t ask her about Janet Street-Porter

Courtney Barnett returns with an album that’s lower on quips and (even) higher on introspection than anything she’s done before

The best albums from October 2021, including new LPs from Jarvis Cocker, Lotic, Grouper, Voka Gentle, Theon Cross and more

From the discomfiting footwork of Jana Rush to Fake Laugh & Tarquin’s genre-busting hyperpop, here are the best albums of August 2021

There’s much more to ambitious Preston romantics White Flowers than the vague shoegaze revivalism a cursory listen might suggest

Here they are – the best new albums of the month. May highlights include St Vincent, Sons of Kemet, Squid, Mdou Moctar and many more

The first interview with Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen, two iconic songwriters, about their new collaboration

This is a grand, enormous body of work from Sufjan Stevens – but it’s just not interesting enough to justify its two-and-a-half-hour excess

An innovative, heartfelt evolution of ideas explored on Your Wilderness Revisited, the new record from William Doyle is pretty much perfect