musicOMHThe Sopranos La Nuova Musica / Bates @ Wigmore Hall, London musicomh.com - by Barry Creasy Although there were some charming musical highlights to La Nuova Musica’s A French Affair on Thursday evening, the concert seemed to suffer from a …
musicOMHOpera La Traviata @ Teatro La Fenice, Venice musicomh.com - by Melanie Eskenazi Robert Carsen’s production of La Traviata was the first staged work at the ‘new’ Fenice in 2004 and, although some of the concepts now look a little …
musicOMHWoodwinds Sound of a Century @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London musicomh.com - by Benjamin Poore Two concerts from the London Sinfonietta chart ‘the sound of a century’. This first, led by Thierry Fischer, explores one tendril of the …
musicOMHAlbums Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot musicomh.com - by Ben Devlin The third in a trilogy of records produced by Stuart Price (Jacques Lu Cont, Thin White Duke, various other aliases and groups), Hotspot eschews the …
musicOMHAlbums Les Amazones D’Afrique – Amazones Power musicomh.com - by Steven Johnson The origins of Les Amazones D’Afrique date back to 2014 when the first incarnation of the now shapeshifting collective was formed by three …
musicOMHLyrics The Electric Soft Parade – Stages musicomh.com - by Graeme Marsh Grief is the driver for The Electric Soft Parade’s fifth studio LP, but it’s taken 10 years to get here, since the White brothers lost their mother …
musicOMHEminem Eminem – Music To Be Murdered By musicomh.com - by Ben Devlin In 2018 Eminem released a lead single from a new album that featured him calling another rapper a ‘faggot’: so far, so usual. But this time a variety …
musicOMHIndie Music Pinegrove – Marigold musicomh.com - by John Murphy There’s no way to listen to Pinegrove‘s latest album without being aware of a particular elephant in the room. In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo …
musicOMHFlute Bach and the Divine: Solo Cantatas @ Milton Court, London musicomh.com - by Barry Creasy The baritone Benjamin Appl made his name singing Schubert Lieder, but his proficiency with works of an earlier era was demonstrated in his 2018 CD …
musicOMHHalsey Halsey – Manic musicomh.com - by Ben Devlin Halsey’s breakout appearance on Chainsmokers’ Closer, which splashed all over international charts in 2016, was a mixed blessing. Yes, it showed off …
musicOMHAlbums This Music Made Me: Sam Lee musicomh.com - by musicOMH Sam Lee, photographed in Wick woods, Hackney (Photo: Dominick Tyler) Traditional music specialist and sometime wildnerness survival expert Sam Lee‘s …
musicOMHMemoirs The Just Joans – The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of musicomh.com - by Helen Clarke The Just Joans have had infinite comparisons thrown their way throughout their career: The Vaselines, Belle and Sebastian, The Magnetic Fields. Yet …
musicOMH Bombay Bicycle Club – Everything Else Has Gone Wrong musicomh.com - Ben Hogwood What are your reasons to be cheerful in January? In a month where inspiration can be in short supply, it’s...The post Bombay Bicycle Club – …
musicOMH Gerhaher / Huber @ Wigmore Hall, London musicomh.com - by Sam Smith No one who heard Christian Gerhaher sing ‘Oh du mein holder Abendstern’ in Tannhäuser at the Royal Opera House in 2010 and 2016 will ever forget the …
musicOMHAlbums Bill Fay – Countless Branches musicomh.com - by Mark Newington It has been a long and winding road to the release of Countless Branches for 76-year-old Bill Fay. Back in the mid ’90s the London-born singer, …
musicOMHAlbums Mura Masa – R.Y.C musicomh.com - by Ben Devlin Alex Crossan a.k.a. Mura Masa came into the electronic scene as a purveyor of Flume-ish, HudMo-ish beats, all sidechain and wonky synths that were so …
musicOMHRavi Shankar Sukanya @ Royal Festival Hall, London musicomh.com - by Steven Johnson Shankar 100 is a year long series taking place at the Southbank Centre commemorating the centenary of the birth of Ravi Shankar. He may be …
musicOMHAlgiers Algiers – There Is No Year musicomh.com - by Mark Newington After touring both stadiums supporting Depeche Mode and tiny eastern European headline shows directly afterwards, all in support of their excellent …
musicOMHIcon version of the Flipboard logoIndie Music Lina_Raül Refree – Lina_Raül Refree // Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree – Names of North End Women musicomh.com - by Alan Ashton-Smith Two albums involving producer Raül Refree are released early this year, and his name appears prominently on both, suggesting a collaborative …
musicOMHAlbums Keeley Forsyth – Debris musicomh.com - by John Murphy The tale of an actor turning their hand to music is an old one, but Keeley Forsyth seems to be going about things rather differently to how you’d …
musicOMHAlbums Louise – Heavy Love musicomh.com - by Nick Smith Louise had quite the musical career in the ’90s. Following the stellar success as part of R&B girl group Eternal, she then pursued a solo career that …
musicOMHGuitar Holy Fuck – Deleter musicomh.com - by Ben Devlin 4 years since their previous record, Congrats, Holy Fuck are back with another record of distorted, punky electronica. They’re joined by Pond’s Nick …
musicOMHAlbums …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – X: The Godless Void And Other Stories musicomh.com - by Sam Shepherd When …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead first started to make a name for themselves in the late 1990s, it seemed as if they might be one of …
musicOMHOccult Poppy – I Disagree musicomh.com - by Nicoletta Wylde Rejoice! Poppy is free from her previous label, her character co-creator Titanic Sinclair, and back with a candyfloss razorblade aural representation …
musicOMHOpera Prisoner of the State @ Barbican Hall, London musicomh.com - by Sam Smith David Lang’s Prisoner of the State is a modern day take on Fidelio, and it achieves the right balance between creating a work that speaks to us today, …
musicOMHSelena Gomez Selena Gomez – Rare musicomh.com - by Martyn Young The intervening years since Selena Gomez’s 2015 album Revival have seen the singer endure some well publicised health issues as well as a high …
musicOMHAlbums Craven Faults – Erratics & Nonconformities musicomh.com - by Ben Devlin The debut album of electronic outfit Craven Faults is a decidedly slow affair. Motifs appear and develop over periods of 10 minutes or more, drones …
musicOMHAlbums Field Music – Making A New World musicomh.com - by Steven Johnson Over the last 15 years David and Peter Brewis have proved themselves one of the most consistently inventive and creative duos operating in music. It …
musicOMHAlbums Georgia – Seeking Thrills musicomh.com - by Martyn Young There are many reasons why we listen to music. You might like to have something on in the background as you casually go about your everyday life. You …
