The best gigs of a bumper week for music in Leeds – including Idles, Superorganism, Snail Mail, Rolling Blackouts C.F., Moses Sumney, Dream Wife, David Byrne and a homecoming for Alt-J.
Ahead of the Mercury Prize 2017, we preview the shortlisted nominees and look at the history of the award.
While it contains some exceptional highlights, ‘Relaxer’ finds Alt-J often struggling to find their footing on an admirably bold third album.
To adapt that famous misquotation attributed to Mark Twain, reports of the album’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Ever since the turn of the millennium, conventional wisdom has had it that the traditional long-player is on its way out, an arcane format out of time with the digital world that will cede inexorably to a future of singles and playlists. But while many artists have experimented with what an album
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