A decade of Zeppelin

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin is 10 years old. This iconic loudspeaker changed the way people thought about digital music and proved that quality sound from an iPod was both possible… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 19 Oct 2017
Categories: Music

Album Review: Melanie de Biasio – Lilies (PIAS)

Dark and direct Belgian chanteuse Melanie de Biasio established a stellar reputation with 2013’s No Deal, an album of smouldering jazz noire songs over dark and expansive soundscapes from piano,… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 16 Oct 2017
Categories: Music, New music
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Sonic Meditations #4: Concrete music

The Multi-Story Orchestra have been taking performances of classical music to car parks in London, Birmingham and Ipswich. At the end of the season, Emma Warren finds out what happens… Read more

Posted on: Friday, 13 Oct 2017
Categories: Events, Listen and you'll see

Album Review: Wild Ponies – Galax (Gearbox)

Down on the farm Wild Ponies are Telisha and Doug Williams, a musical and nuptial partnership based in Nashville whose roots go back to the old time music of south… Read more

Posted on: Wednesday, 11 Oct 2017
Categories: Music, New music
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Film Soundtrack Review: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Science-Fiction’s cult classic returns with a blistering score that stays true to the original. The original Blade Runner soundtrack was famously awash with synthesisers, futuristic sounds and innovative uses of… Read more

Posted on: Wednesday, 11 Oct 2017
Categories: Music, Film Soundtrack Review
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Album Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers (Constellation)

A light on the horizon Just in case you fail to pick it up in their music Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s sixth release contains a manifesto of sorts, certainly the… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 2 Oct 2017
Categories: Music, Awards and reviews, New music
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A sound partnership at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

In a lavish exhibition preview event, Opera: Passion, Power and Politics opened its doors to special guests at the Victoria and Albert Museum last Wednesday evening. Bowers & Wilkins is… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 28 Sep 2017
Categories: Music

Film Soundtrack Review: It (2017)

A twisted playground of sounds within a brilliantly constructed score Let’s be honest, horror movies wouldn’t be half as scary without a disconcerting soundtrack accompanied with pin-point sound design. But… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 28 Sep 2017
Categories: News, Music, Film Soundtrack Review
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Album Review: Fink – Resurgam (R’Coup’d)

The second coming Fin ‘Fink’ Greenall is not your religious type but he took the name of this album from an inscription in a church near his childhood home in… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 25 Sep 2017
Categories: Music
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