David Doig

The cutting edge is a nice place to hunt for new music. Although nothing is really new, a formidable skill in recycling and a perpetually refreshing audience makes this matter little. Here are this month’s favourites

Young Chicago lo-fi upstarts Horsegirl have taken their appealing ramshackle dissonance to New York and to new heights

After a persuasively accomplished 15 years as a solo artist crafting gorgeous gems of songs and holding them exceedingly close to her chest, Sharon Van Etten has finally found her comfort and confidence in turning songs over to collaborative development

It is always refreshing to hear great-quality music coming from both fresh voices and long stayers. It gives us hope the world can be okay. Here are some old and new favourites

We’re off and racing through 2025 already, but I’m looking backwards. As far as 2022 and 2023. Not that these were amazing years by any metric, but one of my favourite new artists realised their masterpiece and one of my favourite old artists came back from the dead

We’re off and racing through 2025 already, but I’m looking backwards. As far as 2022 and 2023. Not that these were amazing years by any metric, but one of my favourite new artists realised their masterpiece and one of my favourite old artists came back from the dead

We’re off and racing through 2025 already, but I’m looking backwards. As far as 2022 and 2023. Not that these were amazing years by any metric, but one of my favourite new artists realised their masterpiece and one of my favourite old artists came back from the dead