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Music + Album reviews

November 2026

  • Conductor Vasily Petrenko performs, holding a baton with the other hand in the air

    Strauss: An Alpine Symphony album review – monumental work’s mystic vision guides Petrenko

    Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic’s take on Strauss’s tone poem is full of darkness and light, with an impressionist’s eye for details

October 2026

  • Australian artist Sampa the Great holding a guitar.

    Sampa the Great: Nu Zamrock review – a full-circle moment for a world-class act

  • A close-up shot of Radie Peat, wearing a black leather jacket, gold chain and gold earrings, with short cropped strawberry blonde hair

    Folk album of the month
    Radie Peat: No Human Tongue Can Tell review – Lankum singer’s solo debut is the year’s best folk album

  • A black and white close-up portrait of Kali Malone against coastal rocks

    Kali Malone: Burning Song review – drone composer wields Bach’s organ to breathtaking effect

  • Tenor Laurence Kilsby, a rising singing star, pictured wearing a white shirt smiling at the camera.

    Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings album review – Wilson explores British music’s highway and byways

  • The Big Moon: Forever review – the hell of hearing loss inspires a defiantly hopeful pop-disco marvel

  • Igor Levit: Resistance album review – essential listening in a time of bullies and despots

  • Loidis: From the Toolkit of Lovers review – epic 111-minute album is a teeming universe of detail

  • Experimental album of the month
    Basma and Temir Alcy: NAD review – skulking, sultry French-Moroccan crew evoke this shifting season

  • Bartók: Miraculous Mandarin Suite, The Wooden Prince album review – vivid colours and astute pacing

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Shovel Dance Collective: Everything in Readiness review – ecstatic, dissonant folk music fighting for sonic and spiritual freedom

  • With nine new recordings of Mahler’s epic Resurrection Symphony this year alone, which rises above the rest?

  • Michael Kiwanuka: Fudge review – rough and instinctive, but also lush and alive with melody

  • PatKop & Say album review – playfulness and beguiling delicacy in mix of new and old

  • Worldpeace DMT: Stick Around for Tea review – ‘laptop twee’ duo keep things goofy but strengthen songs

  • Global album of the month
    Weird Baile: Collected Rips 2004-2024 review – a hallucinatory trip to baile funk’s outer limits

  • Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words review – Chamayou makes each piece feel somehow familiar yet fresh

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Angèle: Instinct review – Belgium’s biggest star is determined to do pop differently

  • Fontaines DC: Dopamine Chamber review – gloomy, gorgeous and a gargantuan triumph

  • Jazz album of the month
    Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves: Dedicated to You review – eloquent Coltrane tribute

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