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• Gary Numan: how the Billboard charts told him his tracks aren't electric

  08-10-2017 17:00
  Despite 95% of the instrumentation on Numan’s new album being electronic, the US chart company says it does not qualify for their dance/electronic countdown Gary Numan is one of the most famous creators of electronic music. Since 1979, when his band Tubeway Army’s single Are ‘Friends’ Electric? – a song about a robot sex worker – spent four weeks at No 1, he has been routinely described as an “electronic pioneer” and a Google search for “Numa
  
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• Bella Hadid Gets Totally Ridiculed For Calling Trainers 'Dope'

  08-10-2017 16:40
  What a dope
  
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• Così fan tutte review – Nicholas Hytner's irresistible production takes a bow

  08-10-2017 16:33
  Glyndebourne, Lewes
  Hytner’s sunny, unironic staging of Mozart’s problematic comedy – about to tour for a final time – is one of the most intelligent and insightful aroundGlyndebourne has always honoured Mozart as its patron saint. That’s good for Glyndebourne and, largely, good for Mozart. But one side-effect of having such a close association with a particular composer is that the company has to keep renewing the work. Nicholas Hytner’s 2006 production of Co
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Talks Body Confidence But Refuses To Talk Baby Bumps At First Personal Appearance Since Pregnancy Rumours Started

  08-10-2017 16:16
  The possibly pregnant star has set tongues wagging by talking about her body confidence
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Star Katherine Langford Shows Off Incredible Singing Voice

  08-10-2017 15:54
  The TV star duetted with co-star Ross Butler on Instagram
  
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• Riverdale Has Just Added A New Hunk To The Cast To Play Betty Cooper's Long Lost Brother

  08-10-2017 15:19
  Hart Denton will be playing Chic
  
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• Pixie Lott's Fiancé Oliver Cheshire Recounts Taking Down 'Screaming' Uber Driver After Attack Outside Natural History Museum

  08-10-2017 15:01
  The model leapt into action after a driver mowed down 11 people in London on Saturday
  
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• This Is Why Love Island’s Alex Bowen Has Beef With Ex On The Beach Star Kayleigh Morris

  08-10-2017 14:06
  When reality stars clash!
  
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• Holly Hagan's 'Boring' Weekend Seemed Pretty Awesome To Us

  08-10-2017 13:16
  The star says the next three weekends will be a lot more dramatic
  
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• Everyone Is Absolutely Loving Chloe Ferry's Makeover

  08-10-2017 12:16
  Looking good, Chloe
  
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• Moses Sumney: ‘I have an obsession with loneliness, singledom, isolation’

  08-10-2017 11:00
  It’s impossible not to love the genre-spurning singer with a heavenly falsetto – despite his ‘obnoxious obsession’Of the many striking aspects of Moses Sumney – his skyscraping height, his hallucinatory, Nina Simone-like dreamscapes, his Rolodex of starry musician friends – most intriguing of all is his voice. A feathery falsetto, often layered to celestial effect, it flutters daintily over lambent guitar and sweeping strings. It’s surely the reason that
  
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• Kelela: Take Me Apart review – sultry, shape-shifting R&B

  08-10-2017 10:00
  (Warp)
  The LA-based singer fuses old-school vocals with cutting-edge music on her alluring debutCan one successfully rewind and fast-forward at the same time? Kelela, it seems, is a dab hand at it. Over the course of one celebrated mixtape, 2013’s Cut 4 Me, a 2015 EP, Hallucinogen, and, now, her long-awaited debut album, one of the most arresting new voices in R&B has created a deft stitch in time, laying 90s R&B vocals over cutting-edge digital production techniques. If that summa
  
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• Dizzee Rascal review – blessed be the peacemaker

  08-10-2017 10:00
  O2 Academy, Newcastle
  The MC’s spat with a fellow grime star is forgotten on a night when he displays his lightning-fast verbal skillsFor a man who threatened to kill someone the other day, Dizzee Rascal makes for a convincing peacekeeper. Half a dozen songs into his set in Newcastle, a tussle breaks out in the moshpit. Dizzee shouts to his DJ, MK, to stop everything. As security wade in, the 33-year-old instructs the offending parties to move to opposite sides of the room; huge cheers eru
  
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• Rationale: Rationale review – soulful and charismatic

  08-10-2017 09:00
  (Warner Bros)The strength of Zimbabwe-born, London-based artist Rationale – real name Tinashe Fazakerley – lies in his charismatic, soulfully elegant baritone voice. The best moments of this album find him harnessing that majestic voice. His tremulous intonations on closing track Somewhere to Belong bathe the song in an engulfing richness, while tracks such as the spiritually suffused Fuel to the Fire and Prodigal Son boast a gorgeous ambition reminiscent of Justin Timberlake’s
  
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• Liam Gallagher: As You Were review – a mixed solo debut

  08-10-2017 09:00
  (Warner Bros)Perhaps recognising that songwriting was not chief among Beady Eye’s remarkably few attributes, Liam Gallagher has sought outside help for his solo debut. Enter A-listers Greg Kurstin (Adele, Katy Perry) and Andrew Wyatt (Charli XCX, Florence + the Machine) with a set of songs that, if not remarkable, are at least an upgrade. Kurstin co-wrote I Get By and Greedy Soul, which stand out for their swagger. However, Gallagher gets bogged down in over-egged schmaltz on the self-penn
  
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• Kele Okereke: Fatherland review – goodbye disco, hello folk

  08-10-2017 09:00
  (BMG)Parenthood changes people in all kinds of ways. For Kele Okereke, the frontman of Bloc Party, the birth of his daughter, Savannah, last year has led him to abandon the lascivious disco of 2014’s solo album, Trick. Fatherland is folky, largely unadorned, though Capers, bizarrely, flirts with cabaret. But while the singer’s reference points are otherwise flawless (Joni Mitchell’s Blue, Elliott Smith’s Either/Or), and the songs possess a pleasing vulnerability, Okereke&
  
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• Jon Boden: Afterglow review – more prog rock than folk

  08-10-2017 09:00
  (Hudson)Jon Boden is celebrated as a folk stalwart and founder of the now dissolved big band Bellowhead. Afterglow, however, owes more to prog rock than to the folk canon, its elaborate arrangements, stop-start rhythms and melodramatic vocals recalling Gabriel-era Genesis with a dash of Bush and Bowie. It’s a concept album too, its lovers lost in a post-oil urban dystopia apparently modelled on Lewes’ bonfire night celebrations. There are appealing acoustic and woodwind moments &ndas
  
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• High Contrast: Night Gallery review – muscular rhythms, winning melodies

  08-10-2017 09:00
  (3 Beat/Universal)Lincoln Barrett pushes himself further out of his drum’n’bass comfort zone on this sixth High Contrast album, with varying results. Disconcerting glam call-to-arms Shotgun Mouthwash (which puts forward the uncontroversial proposition that the former is “a good substitute” for the latter) doesn’t quite succeed, but on the marvellous, audacious Tobacco Road he effectively invents drum’n’blues. Barrett’s latest shot for the charts, T
  
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