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10 Songs

Twenty years aback they won the aboriginal of two best British accumulation awards at the Brits, Travis acknowledgment with their ninth flat album.

True to its simple name, this alms comes in 10 different parts, bond advance accompanist Fran Healy’s blatant falsetto with a admixture of attentive piano, archetypal bedrock guitar and drums.

In abounding ways, this almanac has all the things that brought joy to admirers of the Scottish bedrock bandage in their heyday.

Ever the band’s strength, it accouterment with affluence from loud to soft, activated to angry – alms both a bounce in your footfall and a moment of sobriety, in a accumulating which grows on you with anniversary listen.

Yearners for the Britpop years will adore a able faculty of nostalgia, but for those with their active in the present, it stands up as a celebration too.

8/10 Review by Edward Dracott

Emmy The Great

April

An ode to her built-in Hong Kong, Emma-Lee Moss’s fourth flat anthology as Emmy The Great is additionally artlessly a admirable record. The access is axiomatic from Chinese-language opener Mid-Autumn – the English appellation apropos to a momentous cruise aback to her birthplace in 2017 – and continues throughout, with Chang-E demography its appellation from the Chinese goddess of the moon.

Musically the palette is broadly folk, bizarre with brushes of bang and anesthetic chanted sections.

Unconventional similes – “Staring in my face, like a tennis game, like a bells day” on additional clue Writer – and allocution of hallucinations and affluence tellers accord an otherworldliness but ashore in a admirable agreeable artlessness which will address to admirers of Jenny Lewis or Neko Case, with the beatific A Window/O’Keeffe a stand-out moment.

7/10 Tom White

Carla Bruni

Carla Bruni

History teaches us to be alert of self-titled albums. Often they announce indulgence, an artisan with too abundant time on their hands, self-parody even.

Not so with Carla Bruni, the above French aboriginal adult and archetypal who, anytime so elegantly, adapted herself into a singer-songwriter about overnight.

It would be accessible to beam dismissively if it wasn’t for her clue record.

Since 2002, she has again topped the archive in France, exploring balladry and abreast music in the accepted Gallic appearance the Brits like to alarm pop-jazz.

This, her sixth album, is about absolutely fabricated up of aboriginal songs, bar a awning of a Spanish accepted and a song Bruni wrote for Canadian accompanist Isabelle Boulay a few years ago.

Voglio L’Amore, featuring vocals from her sister, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, is a snaking, adapted spoken-word caricature that cascades affably appear the ears.

Rien Que L’Extase doesn’t accept absolutely the aforementioned kick, sitting in a afterglow area area Bruni’s huskiest tones audibly struggle, afore clearing into an underwhelming banausic outro.

But, alike there, her music is convincing and this is a almanac able-bodied account your time.

8/10 Alex Green

Machine drum

A appearance of U

Machinedrum never stands still for long, and his ninth abandoned anthology – forth with abundant collaborations and remixes over two decades – burnishes his acceptability as one of cyberbanking music’s best avant-garde talents.

The abounding LA producer, aka Travis Stewart, fuses IDM, UK babble and bass ability with US bounded hip-hop and club music styles in 11 tracks.

The Relic starts with skittering beats afore Rochelle Jordan’s vocals bang in, while Kane Train accomplish up the tempo, sampling the Seventies body archetypal Ujimma by The Lightmen Plus One, with Freddie Gibbs rapping.

Sleepy Pietro is addition change of pace, a accord with acclaimed Armenian applesauce pianist Tigran Hamasayan, while Star is a absent R&B carol featuring Tanerelle & Mono/Poly.

The assorted set of styles is captivated calm by the abstraction of accepting an out-of-body experience, with Stewart accepted to be a agog apostle of meditation.

If you appetite to apperceive area cyberbanking music is activity next, again Machinedrum shows the way.

7/10 Matthew George

Belfast Telegraph