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Beth Orton brings beauty to middle-age, Jake Blount is a revelation – the week’s best albums
- The chill-out rooms of rave culture would have felt empty without Beth Orton, who has been an intriguing flavour in British music since the early 1990s. Her distinctive, fragile voice provided lyrical motifs (sometimes spoken, sometimes half-sung) on tracks by ambient techno pioneer William Orbit, big beat powerhouse The Chemical Brothers and acid jazz trio Red Snapper.
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TV tonight: who’s the most evil person in soaps?
It’s the British Soap Awards, and the stars battle for prestigious gongs from best family to biggest villain. Plus: Oti Mabuse’s bizarre dating show bows out. Here’s what to watch this evening
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Madonna: where to start in her back catalogue
Madonna: where to start in her back catalogueIn Listener’s digest, we help you explore the work of great artists. Next: how the 1980s material girl transformed herself into a mature millennial pop songwriter
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'I Lost The Lyrics So Had To Write It Again From Scratch': Shaznay Lewis On All Saints’ Pure Shores
The classic hit was released 20 years ago.
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UK music stars rail against Brexit in open letter to Theresa May
Ed Sheeran, one of the letter’s signatories, performs at Glastonbury in 2017. Some of the country’s most celebrated composers, producers and performers have joined together to issue a stark warning that the “vast voice” of the music industry will be silenced inside a “self-built cultural jail” if Britain crashes out of the EU. An angry open letter to the prime minister drafted by Bob Geldof claims “a botched Brexit” will wreak havoc and seriously damage a creative sector worth an estimated £4.
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Madonna's 15 albums: ranked from worst to best
Madonna's 15 albums: ranked from worst to best
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Madonna's 15 albums: ranked from worst to best
As Madonna turns 60 this month, Helen Brown revisits the singer's sprawling discography and ranks all 15 of her albums from worst to best. 15. MDNA (2012) Euro house artists like the Benassi Bros gave Madonna a boost onto the sweaty EDM bandwagon but – despite peppy contributions from Nikki Minaj and MIA and a reunion with William Orbit – she fails to make an emotional connection. More album filler than dancefloor filler. Producer William Orbit later told fans that the album had suffered because
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All Saints - Testament, album review: back with aplomb
All Saints celebrated their 20th anniversary last weekend with a performance at London’s Pride, reminding everyone just why they were one of the coolest girl bands of the 1990s. Then there was a second, surprise comeback 10 years later in 2016 with Red Flag – an album that finally felt like the worthy successor to 2000’s Saints and Sinners. The group were suddenly relevant and enjoying critical and commercial success once more.
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Madonna Complains To Manager Guy Oseary Over 'Songwriting Camps' As She Works On New Album
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Ray of Light: Madonna’s lesson in maturity or gateway for Goop?
After 1994’s R&B-flavoured Bedtime Stories album had helped sanitise the brand post Erotica’s S&M, 1998’s Ray of Light represented a mature – but not boring – move into blissful reawakening. The platinum blonde hair of old was sandier, while the look was less Marlene Dietrich and more Phoebe from Friends. Like most top-tier Madonna albums, Ray of Light has had a huge cultural impact.
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