Music

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

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

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

The 2013 album is a compelling record of our collective fracturing 

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

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

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

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

‘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’

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

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

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

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

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

‘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’

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

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

‘It is Björk’s ambivalence to human relations that makes her liberality so poignant’

‘George Michael has always told the truth. But I don’t believe that truth. Freedom is invisible. It’s just a line in an ad’

‘A year after its release, it was still a huge dancefloor anthem and I was entering a world that would dismantle what I thought I knew about life up until that point’