Cloudspeakers

This made them initially weirder than we could ever have dreamed. Both mod-lineage club kids and stage school opportunists, Kemp's crew were a self-made boy band who dressed as sci-fi Cossacks and ... Lees meer

Getting it together in the countryside has long been part of the Animal Collective ethos. Look again at some of those titles: Grass, Feels, Strawberry Jam; rustic re-sensitisation written in. Panda... Lees meer

It's rare, and usually a cop-out, to say so, but this is music so complete that it just is. Pile up the praise (it's fun, virtuoso, syncretic, energising) and you'll sound vague; pull it apart and ... Lees meer

And the simple reason for that is, no one else can do what Tony Allen does. Aged 69, he's still the only person who can play the Afrobeat he invented during his time driving Fela Kuti's band, Afric... Lees meer

So the appearance of this set of remixes is not such a surprise. Neither, unfortunately, is the overall lack of surprise – of the anarchic play of ideas that's always distinguished Murphy and Tim... Lees meer

Nothing quite fits Little Boots. When someone asks, "what's she like, then?" you find yourself floundering. She's great, but she's not too bothered about what pop should be; for Victoria Hesketh, p... Lees meer

Some stars were born to go their own way, and – even before his issue of shares to fund this album – there's rarely been so obvious a case as Patrick Wolf. With misfit pop talents in suffocatin... Lees meer