Review
Indie rock’s favourite songwriter keeps it real on his major label debut
On Headlights, Alex G navigates growing fame and attention in his signature casual way.
- Barry Divola
Latest
Is Justin Bieber’s surprise new album any good?
The 31-year-old has made a defiant return to music against a backdrop of whispers he’d lost his way.
- Annabel Ross
Homegrown hits: the best new Australian music to hear this month
Including Folk Bitch Trio and saxophonists Sandy Evans and Andrew Robson in full flight.
- John Shand, Nick Buckley and Robert Moran
Virgin is an anxious and urgent return to form for Lorde
The New Zealand pop star is emotionally raw and sexually frank on her new album.
- Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
A pop-rock lightning rod returns, as polarising as ever
Yungblud’s new album is a Tarantino-esque pastiche of ’80s metal, ‘90s Britpop and ’00s emo. It works … sometimes.
- Tom W. Clarke
Thirty-something and newly single? Haim know exactly how you feel
On new album I Quit, the sister-trio embrace single life and sound positively dizzy about it.
- Barry Divola
First there was darkness. Then there was Addison Rae
The TikTok star delivers on her pop promise with her remarkably stylish debut.
- Robert Moran
Miley Cyrus, pop’s new queen of reinvention, goes for broke on her new album
After finally achieving Grammys glory, Miley chases icon status on her new “visual album”.
- Annabel Ross
What does ecological decay sound like? This profound suite from one of our leading trumpeters
Sydney trumpeter Tom Avgenicos musically depicts the conflict between nature and urbanisation.
- John Shand
Another bold turn from one of Australian music’s great chameleons
On Avicennia, guitarist Carl Dewhurst takes some old colleagues off to explore fresh terrain.
- John Shand
Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/music-reviews-jp5