Cordelia Lam

Kacey Musgraves – ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ review: a country heroine’s journey back to her roots

Stepping away from the stargazing and glitz of her last few records, Musgraves makes a gritty, grounded return to cowboy country

Waterbaby – ‘Memory Be A Blade’ review: a collection of soft sounds and hard truths

Growing from her bedroom pop beginnings, the Swedish artist’s debut album is a quiet revelation

Waterbaby pours herself into intimate songs about memory and moving on

A recovering people-pleaser rejecting the easy comforts of nostalgia, the Swedish alt-R&B artist is committing to honesty in life and art

The Last Dinner Party’s lessons from the inferno: “We know our limits better now”

After their stratospheric rise to stardom last year, the renaissance band returns with a new album and a storybook full of knowledge gained about fame, touring and speaking out

Nabeel’s dreamy alt-rock is finding a way back home

Yasir Razak is pioneering Arabic shoegaze for a generation of diasporic Iraqis, forging new meanings for heritage, home and family

Japanese Breakfast – ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)’ review: a work of art

Michelle Zauner’s deliciously nuanced songwriting shines on the indie rockers’ bold, beautifully realised fourth album

Mereba is making music to heal us all: “There’s a natural tenderness in me”

After years of hustling in Atlanta hip-hop collective Spillage Village, the singer-songwriter and guitarist goes back to her roots on her second album, ‘The Breeze Grew A Fire’

Beckah Amani – ‘This Is How I Remember It.’ review: a bold, expressive debut

The Burundian-Australian star chronicles life, love and the anxieties of modern existence with confessional candour on her beautiful first album

The world, according to Mustafa

The Sudanese-Canadian artist shares his experiences of faith, loss and community on his debut album ‘Dunya’. Each song, approached with grace and striking vulnerability, is part of his process of figuring out the world around him, and his place in it

Mustafa praises Dua Lipa’s activism at ‘Dunya’ listening event: “It’s our responsibility as artists to hold up a mirror to our world”

The singer-songwriter and poet also spoke to Lipa about the "seamless" process of working with Rosalía on his new album – which contains additional contributions from Aaron Dessner of The National, Clairo and more
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