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• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: The Kid review – analogue psychedelia with some growing up to do

  05-10-2017 23:30
  (Western Vinyl)With modular synths growing densely around her multitracked voice, this album from Pacific-coastal artist Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith becomes as lush, heady – and occasionally trying – as a rainforest. It’s an ambitious record in four parts, with each quarter representing a different emotional phase of a human lifespan. Her melodies share the courtly poise of English folksong and the psychedelic naivety of Animal Collective – they accurately evoke the blitheness
  
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• Carla Bruni: French Touch review – odd, detached covers, plus a bit of mischief

  05-10-2017 23:15
  (Decca) Related: Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me Although Carla Bruni is probably best known in the UK as the wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the ex-supermodel has been a pop star in France for 20 years. Here, singing in English, she brings trademark smoky, breathy vocals to an impeccable range of covers ranging from well-worn standards (Moon River, Stand By Your Man) to less predictable personal favourites (Depeche Mode’s Enjoy the Silence). All are given the same treatment:
  
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• Kelela: Take Me Apart review – future-facing glitchy R&B with traction

  05-10-2017 23:00
  (Warp)When Washington-born singer Kelela released her first mixtape, Cut 4 Me, in 2013, her fusion of sumptuous R&B vocals and harsh, avant garde electronica made a splash. But in the four years since, alternative R&B has gone from bleeding edge to genre du jour: in a class now crowded with thoroughly modern divas, has anyone has been saving Kelela a seat? As her debut album opens, the idea that the singer may have been left behind by the sound she helped establish doesn’t seem out
  
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• Wolf Parade: Cry Cry Cry review – howling powerpop Canadians return with their best yet

  05-10-2017 22:45
  (Sub Pop)Part of a seemingly endless assembly line of artistically minded Canadian bands that emerged in the mid-noughties, Montreal outfit Wolf Parade had a howling take on new wave and powerpop that always seemed a little too wild to match the mainstream appeal of peers such as Arcade Fire or New Pornographers. Just as a blue-collar rock maturity seemed to be creeping into their sound by the release of third album Expo 86, the band promptly decided to split up. Now, though, after seven years a
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs with echoes

  05-10-2017 21:00
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 9 October Specifically, we’re looking for the word “echo”, or derivations thereof, put to music – but our guru will consider any tunes that turn up the reverb. For more on how to interpret the theme, keep an eye on the comments.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 9 October to post your nomination and make your justification. RR contributor
  
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• Zara McFarlane: Arise review – jazz sensibilities highlight a class act

  05-10-2017 20:00
  (Brownswood)The Mobo-winning London singer Zara McFarlane has sounded like a class act for longer than a star-fixated world might realise, and her recent output suggests that her intuitions unerringly guide her emotions toward appreciatively consensual recognition. Arise may be too long on genre music and short on improv for jazz hardliners, but for many it will be a fascinating perspective on an African Caribbean family lineage shared by McFarlane and her gifted drummer and producer Moses Boyd.
  
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• David Virelles/Roman Diaz: Gnosis review – inclusive grooves from deft Cuban pianist and drums guru

  05-10-2017 19:45
  (ECM)The 34-year-old Manhattan-resident Cuban pianist David Virelles can sound like a 21st-century jazz heir to Herbie Hancock in other people’s bands (Tomasz Stanko’s, Chris Potter’s) – but his own preferences are for avant-grooving, as on last year’s Antenna and the broadly sourced contemporary classical music that informs a good deal of Gnosis. This session, with strings, flute, vocals and four percussionists led by the Cuban drums guru Roman Diaz, sees Virelles
  
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• Jon Boden: Afterglow CD review – more somnolent than superlative

  05-10-2017 19:30
  Hudson RecordsA frock-coated, Matrix-style movie star beholding a burning city before him, Jon Boden presents himself on the cover of Afterglow as the ambitious, genre-busting folk artist he’s always been. This is his second solo album about a post-apocalyptic world, after 2009’s Songs from the Floodplain. This time, he’s trying to find a lost lover in ruined streets under kerosene skies. The sturm-und-drang lyrics find an odd partner in the music, however, which largely wallow
  
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• Goran Bregović: Three Letters from Sarajevo review – fun, if patchy

  05-10-2017 19:15
  Wrasse RecordsGoran Bregović has done it all. A rock star in the former Yugoslavia, he went on write film scores and ride the fashion for brassy Balkan Gypsy music, selling over 6m albums and collaborating with everyone from Iggy Pop to the Gipsy Kings. Now he celebrates the history of his birthplace Sarajevo, a meeting place for Christians, Muslims and Jews before the Balkan war, with a wildly varied set. There are instrumental pieces honouring the three religions, each dominated by a diff
  
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• Anthony Robustelli – The Steely Dan Songbook: Interpretations of Unrealized Classics review

  05-10-2017 19:00
  Shady Bear ProductionsThroughout the 1970s, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker wrote dozens of songs that were sketched out as crude piano-and-vocal demos but never completed with a band. Brooklyn-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and Steely Dan biographer Anthony Robustelli has gone through the bootlegs and painstakingly arranged 10 of them as if they were tracks from Gaucho. Alongside a four-piece horn section and two guitarists, Robustelli multitasks impressively on drums, bass and piano, singi
  
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• Fifth Harmony and Pitbull Announce 'Por Favor', The Spanglish Banger We Deserve

  05-10-2017 18:47
  The 'Angel' hitmakers join forces with the Latin superstar for a surefire club banger...
  
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• Dame Vera Lynn leads list of this year's top-selling female artists

  05-10-2017 17:10
  Singer who was ‘forces’ sweetheart’ has highest-selling album released by woman in 2017, the year of her 100th birthdayDame Vera Lynn, the wartime singer who celebrated her 100th birthday this year, has sold more copies than any other album released by a female artist in the UK this year. The “forces’ sweetheart” beat younger competitors including Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey and Zara Larsson to top the new list released by the Official Charts Company. Continue read
  
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• P!nk Announces Documentary, A World Tour And Drops New Song 'Whatever You Want' All At Once

  05-10-2017 17:01
  The 'What About Us' is ready to twirl above our heads and fly across stadiums once again...
  
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• Your 5 Minute Fashion Fix: Perspex Rain Boots, An Asos Bargain & A Classic Kardashian Throwback

  05-10-2017 16:44
  Yes, you can get a Burberry look-a-like for a tenth of the price!
  
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• Geordie Shore's Marnie Simpson's Amazing Transformation Over The Years | MTV Celeb

  05-10-2017 16:41
  Isn't she a beauty?
  
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• Megana McKenna And Pete Wicks Have 'Split' Following 'Constant Rows'

  05-10-2017 16:04
  "They have given their relationship everything, but it still wasn't enough."
  
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• Megan McKenna And Pete Wicks Have 'Split' Following 'Constant Rows'

  05-10-2017 16:04
  "They have given their relationship everything, but it still wasn't enough."
  
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• Schumann: String Quartet No 3; Berg: Lyric Suite, etc CD review – Quartet Gerhard make a hugely impressive debut

  05-10-2017 16:00
  Quartet Gerhard
  (Harmonia Mundi)The Nova series is Harmonia Mundi’s new showcase for young talent. The five discs in the initial batch of releases range from choral music of the Portuguese baroque to 20th-century string quartets, and all the artists involved will receive promotional and logistic support for their concert appearances. Among them are the Quartet Gerhard, a group of Catalan musicians who named themselves after Roberto Gerhard, one of the most inexplicably neglected of all mid
  
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• Detroit rock city: how Protomartyr are standing up for their hometown

  05-10-2017 16:00
  Whether it’s pollution, corruption or social decay, the post-punk band insist on singing about what they know rather than making bland protests against TrumpProtomartyr have commandeered a boat. The Detroit Princess usually ferries boozy crowds up and down the Detroit river while hosting Motown revues and high-school proms, but tonight the city’s punks have taken over.Instead of booking cover bands to play the Temptations and the Supremes, Protomartyr have convinced Canadian hardcore
  
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• A Victoria's Secret X Balmain Collab Is Dropping At This Year's VS Fashion Show

  05-10-2017 15:05
  It's gonna be Balmaizing.
  
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• Liam Gallagher: As You Were review – motormouth meets the Beatles, again

  05-10-2017 15:00
  The younger Gallagher now has better ballads than Noel – but his lyrics will have you beating your head against a tableThe relative commercial failure of Liam Gallagher’s post-Oasis band Beady Eye counts as one of the more perplexing events in recent pop history. To an impartial observer, their two albums seemed neither better nor worse than Oasis’s multi-platinum latter-day efforts. It was surprising that a fanbase who once seemed perhaps the most devoted and undiscriminating
  
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• Why Terence Trent D'Arby became Sananda Maitreya: 'It was that or death'

  05-10-2017 14:17
  In 1987, his debut album saw him hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson and Prince – but then his star crashed and burned. He talks about the nervous breakdown that triggered his identity change, living as a recluse and the music industry’s ‘Olympian’ conspiracy to bring him downWhen Sananda Maitreya references his previous life as Terence Trent D’Arby, he looks uncomfortable. He even says “he”, not “I”, as though he is talking about a differen
  
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• Ed Sheeran and Little Mix Dominate Biggest Singles and Albums of the Year So Far Lists

  05-10-2017 14:12
  There's no stopping these two acts...
  
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• Two Of The Stranger Things Cast Members Are Probs Dating And OMG Please Let It Be So

  05-10-2017 13:58
  This has turned our world Upside Down...
  
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• Get to Know: Lotto Boyzz

  05-10-2017 13:53
  We caught up with the exciting new duo to find out a little bit more about them and his music...​
  
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• Anne-Marie Announces Headline UK Tour

  05-10-2017 13:40
  The 'Ciao Adios' singer is hitting the road next spring...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Kicks Off At THOSE Super Unflattering Bikini Pics In New KUWTK

  05-10-2017 13:12
  "That isn't what I look like"
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: your songs about spinning

  05-10-2017 13:11
  A reader takes a dizzying look through your suggestions, with Kylie Minogue, Dead Or Alive, Kate Tempest and Arctic Monkeys all making the list
  Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.Admit it. You’ve had that slightly sicky feeling when a special person comes close. You know the one – the nausea, the worry
  
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• Geordie Shore Spoiler Video: The Radgies Watch As Gaz Beadle And Abbie Holborn Get Proper Horny Under The Covers

  05-10-2017 13:00
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Glee Actor Mark Salling Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison Over Child Pornography Images

  05-10-2017 12:58
  He was first indicted back in December 2015.
  
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• 'Such a sad event': why musicians hate the Tory party conference

  05-10-2017 12:54
  Florence Welch and Calvin Harris have objected to their music being used at the Tory conference – the way Keane and the Dandy Warhols once did, too. It’s not surprising, given the tin-eared way the Tories twist song meaningsWhen compared with a stage invader, an unrelenting cough and a letter F with less staying power than David Davis, Theresa May probably isn’t that bothered about Florence + the Machine being cross with her conference speech. Related: May offers the ‘Bri
  
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• How To Come To Terms With Your Massive Weakness For F***boys

  05-10-2017 12:54
  An epidemic that is sweeping the nation.
  
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• Did Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui Not Like 7/27?

  05-10-2017 12:47
  The 'Strangers' star just threw the album some major shade...
  
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• Radiohead among nominees for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2018

  05-10-2017 12:31
  Rage Against the Machine, LL Cool J and Kate Bush also feature on the shortlist, which the public will be able to vote on until DecemberThe nominees for this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have been announced, with Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine and Nina Simone among the candidates. The winners will be chosen by a body of around 900 artists, historians and music-industry figures with input from the public, who will be able to cast their votes until 5 December. The list of success
  
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• Miley Cyrus Says She Won't Go On Tour With 'Younger Now'

  05-10-2017 12:23
  The 'Malibu' singer won't perform her country album - but it's not why you think...
  
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• The World Thinks Chloe Ferry Is On The Apprentice But It's Actually Josh Ritchie's Sister And LOL

  05-10-2017 12:16
  It's the glasses babes...
  
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• Selena Gomez Is Reportedly Making A Documentary About Her Lupus Battle

  05-10-2017 12:06
  The film will document the 'Bad Liar' singer's health struggles...
  
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• My comic book romance: why Gerard Way ditched emo for ink

  05-10-2017 12:00
  The former frontman of My Chemical Romance discusses his love for comics and his own titles that he’ll be unveiling at New York Comic Con this week It’s perhaps an exaggeration to say that comic books saved Gerard Way’s life, but they certainly played their part. “I was often quite a depressed teenager,” says the former My Chemical Romance frontman. “I didn’t even know there was such a thing as group therapy until I read about it in a Doom Patrol comic.&
  
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• Is Niall Horan Dating Neighbours Star Olympia Valance?!

  05-10-2017 11:40
  The chart topping singer is basically on top of the world right now.
  
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• Jemma Lucy RAGES At Kem Cetinay’s Response To Amber Davies Party Drama

  05-10-2017 11:26
  As she supports fans branding them a 'showmance'...
  
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• 7 Ways A Spa Break Can Boost Your Mental & Physical Health

  05-10-2017 10:47
  SO MUCH WELLNESS...
  
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• Scott Disick And Sofia Richie’s Relationship Has Lionel Richie Worried: “I’m Scared To Death”

  05-10-2017 09:53
  Lionel isn't exactly thrilled at the prospect of his daughter dating the honorary Kardashian.
  
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• Injured pianist Lang Lang 'borrows' teen's left hand for Carnegie Hall concert

  05-10-2017 02:39
  Pianist plays Gershwin at the New York concert hall with a 14-year-old protege literally his left-hand manPianist Lang Lang, nursing an injured arm, found an innovative solution to avoid missing Carnegie Hall’s annual gala on Wednesday – a young protege literally lent a hand.The Chinese-born pianist, one of the world’s most recognizable classical musicians, was opening the prestigious New York concert hall’s season by playing George Gershwin’s classic Rhapsody in Bl
  
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• Stuck

  05-10-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  Stuck
  
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• I Can't See

  05-10-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  I Can't See
  
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• Horde II

  05-10-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  Horde II
  
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• Dead

  05-10-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  Dead
  
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