Music Week can reveal the 22 acts from 19 different countries who have made the shortlist for the 2018 IMPALA European Album Of The Year Award.
Beggars Group labels have ...
Nilüfer Yanya’s voice is engulfed in the blare of passing sirens. The 22-year-old singer is at home in West London when Music Week drops by, and the soundtrack is fitting ...
In the new bumper issue of Music Week we take a look back at the incredible year that was 2017. We’ve already heard from the music industry about their highs ...
Topping the iTunes listings in 54 countries when we took a snapshot at 6pm on release day (November 3), Sam Smith's second album, The Thrill Of It All, will undoubtedly ...
Baxter DuryPrince Of TearsHeavenlyOctober 27
Intensely personal yet brutally open, Baxter Dury’s fifth album is both a private meditation into the very real relationship breakdown he experienced ...
Yonaka are suffering from the kind of hangovers that don’t bear thinking about, shuffling in to meet Music Week in a riverside boozer clutching takeaway pizza boxes and ordering Bloody ...
BjörkThe Gate,One Little IndianOf course Björk was going to make a dramatic, wonderful comeback. Seemingly crafted from pop magic dust, The Gate is crystalline, a tantalising taste ...
King KruleCzech One, XL Recordings/True Panther SoundsWelcome back into the murky world of King Krule. Here, jazz piano flutters around brass, bass and Archy Marshall’s familiar, throaty vocal. ...
Ray Blk
A 22-year-old singer from south-east London who immortalised Catford, where she lives, in the seismic, soulful, Stormzy-featuring My Hood back in May 2016. Blk also tackled discrimination in ...
What's Somesuch's Hannah Turnbull-Walter listening to this week?I’m really looking forward to seeing what Rex Orange County does next. I’m a big fan of Jamie T and King Krule, ...
