Reviews music

“Today, I looked in the mirror, and I caught me by surprise. The man I saw lookin’ back at me, I almost didn’t recognize."

A work like this asks us to exercise our patience, something in short supply these days – to listen closely to a spread of sound over time without imposing expectations on it.

The band continually reinvented itself, serving up hits that each seemed quite unlike the one that came before.

Works that incorporate organic sounds from outside the piano make some of the deepest impressions.

Dwight Twilley's best work is characterized by jangly, ringing guitars, indelible rhythm, and shimmering, full-bodied productions that equal the finest work of acts like Electric Light Orchestra.

To mark the original album’s 60th anniversary, the Beach Boys have released 'The Pet Sounds Sessions Highlights' as a two-CD set and in multiple vinyl versions.

French soprano Gwendoline Blondeel's incandescent voice embodies warmth as well as reserve, excitement but also resignation – emotions across the gamut.

Sometimes musicians create an atypical instrument combination simply because they have similar tastes or just like working together. Not so here – there's no sense of anything forced, or absent.

On the new 'Shadow Child' Lapell turns entirely inward for a soft-spoken standout about her journey to motherhood.

The placement of the different instruments in the listener's ears creates a sense of surrounding space; the bleed of one tone's decay into the attack of the next seems to smooth over the passage of time.