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The album is a timely affirmation for the global African diaspora, but it can’t be accepted as a universal representation of global Blackness

BY Eric Otieno Sumba AND Nelly Y. Pinkrah |

Pop Smoke’s posthumous release is an authoritarian play on the senses

BY Aria Dean |

The artist’s ambitious fourth studio album is a genre-bending journey of defiance and radiant elation

BY Verónica Bayetti Flores |

For David Grubbs, an onrush of music has led to a rethinking of musical ‘speed’ itself

BY David Grubbs |

After Hours is filled with a familiar, sometimes crushing, sense of yearning for something more

BY Aria Dean |

For her latest show at Kerlin Gallery, the artist incites a state of half-recognition reminiscent of Alzheimer’s 

BY Maeve Connolly |

The 2013 album is a compelling record of our collective fracturing 

BY Andrew Durbin |

The restless, rageful ‘No Home Record’ lures as much as it discomfits

BY Hermione Hoby |

From blues to jazz to the baroque – new fiction from Claire-Louise Bennett

BY Claire-Louise Bennett |

Ian F. Martin traces the life and career of the pioneering Japanese musician, on the 50th anniversary of his first record

BY Ian F. Martin |

Recent R&B albums by Kelela, Lafawndah, serpentwithfeet and Solange tune to newly radiant blues

BY Harmony Holiday |

‘I was 13, with a group of friends, and it was my first time hearing anything so Black and British – and, also, so working class’

BY Kadish Morris |

‘It would be easy to cry to this tune, but difficult to dance to it’

BY Patrick Langley |

‘Your songs are always full of colour and samples, beats and melodies, dizzying rhythms and more melodies still’

BY Sukhdev Sandhu |

‘The way she stumbled on stage, with her smeared lips and perfect legs, appeared at once criminally affected and wildly persuasive’

BY Michelle Orange |

Hamza Walker, director of LAXART, has selected five eminent jazz musicians to perform during Frieze Music presented with BMW

In Collaboration with BMW

‘Over the radio, he asked listeners a simple question: what is your favourite sound of Beijing?’

BY Colin Siyuan Chinnery |

‘He wasn’t English, but he was playing an English game, the fag in the Establishment, a light entertainer, undisguised yet somehow unseen, an open secret’

BY Olivia Laing |

‘Released following the musician’s death in 1993, the album is an extraordinary swan song: morose, comical and utterly preposterous’

BY Max Andrews |

‘The bold, deep, shoulder-shaking beats of the new-jack sound era’

BY Ismail Einashe |