Music

Composer and recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey’s new performance for Rising, Consort of the Moon, invites participants to dive into the elemental wonder of sound.

Jessie Ware’s new album, That! Feels Good!, is her guide to sexual and spiritual liberation.

Metallica’s latest album brings all the energies of the band’s contradictions to a sense of middle-age crisis.

Despite their witty name, boygenius’s new album is too self-absorbed to rise above the banal.

Amanda Brown is best known for her work with The Go-Betweens, but it’s just one part of a long and distinguished career.

One of this year’s most satisfying records has emerged, unexpectedly, from the hyperpop bricolage of 100 Gecs.

The genre-bending compositions of ARIA-nominated musician Nat Bartsch have an astonishing ability to construct feeling.

For feminist punk icon Kathleen Hanna, the re-formation of Bikini Kill after 22 years is an exhilarating vindication of her early career.

A lifetime of chronic pain has shown celebrated singer-songwriter Martha Marlow the real meaning of beauty.

Punk-pop icons Paramore grapple with a viper-tongued youthful legacy in their fascinating but uneven sixth album, This Is Why.