The Listener

Boring, corporate, imitative, inane and gutless: Kasabian's Happenings reviewed

Rod Liddle 27 July 2024 9:00 am

Buy this for Beethoven's beguiling arrangements of British folk songs

Damian Thompson 6 July 2024 9:00 am

‘Left me stunningly bored’: Brat, by Charli XCX, reviewed

Rod Liddle 29 June 2024 9:00 am

Grade: C I don’t doubt the ingenuity. The mastery of a technology which now exists as a substitute for melody,…

An exhilarating debut: Peltokoski's Mozart Symphonies reviewed

Damian Thompson 8 June 2024 9:00 am

Let the Lemon Twigs pour warm syrup into your ears

Rod Liddle 1 June 2024 9:00 am

Yunchan Lim's Chopin isn't as good as his Liszt or Rach

Damian Thompson 11 May 2024 9:00 am

Fat White Family's new album is much, much better than I had feared

Rod Liddle 4 May 2024 9:00 am

The greatest British symphonist you've never heard of

Damian Thompson 13 April 2024 9:00 am

Clever, beautiful and sonically witty: Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter album reviewed

Rod Liddle 6 April 2024 9:00 am

Lang Lang's wretched new album

Damian Thompson 16 March 2024 9:00 am

The Last Dinner Party are sadly rather good

Rod Liddle 9 March 2024 9:00 am

A thrilling new recording of Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie

Damian Thompson 17 February 2024 9:00 am

Cheekface are uplifting and witty but also very punchable: It's Sorted reviewed

Rod Liddle 10 February 2024 9:00 am

Pleasant, underwhelming: Kurt Vile's Back to Moon Beach reviewed

Rod Liddle 16 December 2023 9:00 am

A rather beautiful farewell to rock'n'roll: The Beatles' 'Now and Then' reviewed

Rod Liddle 11 November 2023 9:00 am

Vikingur Olafsson: Goldberg Variations

Damian Thompson 14 October 2023 9:00 am

Roisin Murphy: Hit Parade

Rod Liddle 30 September 2023 9:00 am

The best new album I’ve heard this year: Being Dead’s When Horses Would Run reviewed

Rod Liddle 9 September 2023 9:00 am

Grade: A– The point of a sudden, abrupt change in the time signature and instrumentation of a song is to…

Metallica: 72 Seasons

Rod Liddle 6 May 2023 9:00 am

Lana Del Rey: Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

Rod Liddle 8 April 2023 9:00 am

Sam Smith: Gloria

Rod Liddle 4 February 2023 9:00 am

Gobbets of bile and hard-bitten wisdom: Iggy Pop’s Every Loser reviewed

Rod Liddle 14 January 2023 9:00 am

A cute present for aficionados: The Beach Boys’ Sail on Sailor – 1972 reviewed

Rod Liddle 17 December 2022 9:00 am

I’m very touched that Christine and the Queens has changed her name to Redcar

Rod Liddle 10 December 2022 9:00 am

Carries the whiff of a hotel-lounge pianist: Vikingur Olafsson’s From Afar reviewed

Damian Thompson 26 November 2022 9:00 am

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