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Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2022
- Non-stop dance parties, retro beats and dreamy vignettes vied with slacker rock, flamenco-inflected R&B and no end of heartbreakThe Observer critics’ review of 2022 in full
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Album reviews: Steve Gunn – The Unseen in Between, and Deerhunter – Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
For more than a decade, Steve Gunn was the guitarist giant on whose shoulders better-known artists stood – artists such as Kurt Vile, who recruited him to his band the Violators, as well as Mike Cooper, Michael Chapman and Hiss Golden Messenger. Death is everywhere on Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, as much as others may refuse to see it.
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Kurt Vile, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, review: who needs gimmicks when the songs are this good?
They don’t really make musicians like Kurt Vile any more. The Philadelphian singer-songwriter releases lo-fi psychedelic pop albums at the rate of knots. As well as seven solo albums since 2008, he’s delivered a raft of EPs, a record with Australian singer Courtney Barnett and two albums with former band The War on Drugs.
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Albums of the week: Jess Glynne’s in the groove and she’s going global
When I’ll Be There became her seventh No 1 in the summer, Jess Glynne extended her record as the British female artist with the most chart-topping singles. Glynne is halfway there with her 2015 debut, I Cry When I Laugh. LA sessions with top songwriters apparently didn’t suit the down-to-earth Glynne.
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Album reviews: Kurt Vile – Bottle it In, Colter Wall – Songs of the Plains
Kurt Vile, Bottle it In
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