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Twenty-one tracks from the most divisive British band of their generation — and the one most likely to be taken seriously in twenty years. The 1975 The 1975 are four men from Manchester who have been playing together since school, and who arrived looking like a straightforward pop-rock band before revealing themselves to be something considerably odder: a group whose albums include ambient interludes, gospel choirs, saxophone solos, spoken-word essays and an environmental address delivered by Greta Thunberg. The polarisation is the point. Matty Healy writes lyrics that are self-aware to the edge of self-sabotage, and the band's production — mostly by drummer George Daniel with Healy — is deliberately maximalist, drawing on eighties pop, ambient music, Britpop and contemporary R&B within a single album. What survives the arguments is the songwriting. Underneath the conceptual apparatus there are a great many extremely well-built pop songs. What ...

Twenty pieces for the times when words are the problem. Classical repertoire, film themes and a little modern minimalism, sequenced purely for stillness. ...meditate... A classical playlist assembled by someone whose main territory is soul and jazz is usually worth more than one assembled by a specialist, because the selections are made by ear rather than by catalogue. That is exactly what this is: twenty pieces chosen for how they feel rather than for their place in the repertoire. The result cuts across four centuries without apology, and it works because the organising principle is consistent — slow tempo, small forces, no drama. What to listen for Satie's Gymnopédie No. 3 in the Branford Marsalis arrangement is the perfect opening. Satie wrote these pieces in 1888 as deliberately furniture-like music, decades before anyone used that phrase, and the saxophone reading honours that intention rather than decorating it. Max Richter's "On the Nature of ...

One hundred records chosen not because they are the best but because they mattered — which makes this the most revealing playlist on the site.   This playlist represents some of the songs that shaped me from a child all the way to today. These songs are the ones that resonate the most & will never grow old. 100 Songs That Impacted My Life Every serious listener eventually attempts this list, and almost everyone fails in the same way: they produce a list of great records instead of a list of consequential ones. This set avoids that trap, and you can tell because of what is on it. There is no attempt at balance, no defensive inclusion of critically respected albums, and no shame about soft rock, adult contemporary or the songs that were simply playing at a particular moment. That honesty is what makes it worth hearing rather than merely worth scrolling. What to listen for Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me" opens, which places the whole list: What's Goin...

  New York Times : Andre Harrell, an innovative music executive who in the late 1980s founded Uptown Records, a crucial bridge between the worlds of hip-hop and R&B, and who gave the first career break to Sean Combs, who became one of hip-hop’s signature moguls and global ambassadors, died late Thursday night at his home in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 59. His ex-wife, Wendy Credle, said that the cause was heart failure and that Mr. Harrell had had heart problems for some time. In the early to mid-1980s, hip-hop was growing prodigiously, and Mr. Harrell was at the center of the genre as a rapper and an executive. But his vision for the music wasn’t always in line with his peers’ — he preferred a splash of sophistication and an approach that would speak to older and younger generations alike. When he founded Uptown Records in 1986, he created a home for artists who melded hip-hop swagger with traditional R&B smoothness, who had sleek surfaces and hard edges. For almost a ...