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Diddy Avoiding Consequences? Bennifer Not Splitting? Taylor Swift Engaged? Vanderpump Rules - Another Shocker! Billie Eilish - New Album Review! And More! | Perez Hilton

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The post Diddy Avoiding Consequences? Bennifer Not Splitting? Taylor Swift Engaged? Vanderpump Rules - Another Shocker! Billie Eilish - New Album Review! And More! | Perez Hilton appeared first on Perez Hilton.

Friday, May 17

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‘Lives Outgrown’ by Beth Gibbons Review: A Distinctive Debut

Best known as a member of Portishead, the English singer releases her first solo studio album, ushering listeners into a dark, mythical musical world. [Wall Street Journal] By Mark Richardson In June 2013, the label Domino announced that…

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Zayn Lets His Guard Down on ‘Room Under the Stairs,’ but Teeters Between Reinvention and Reintroduction: Album Review

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When Zayn Malik introduced himself as a member of One Direction — one of the most popular boy bands in history — he did so under the guise of being the broody and mysterious one. The Bradford-born singer very rarely spoke at length in…

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Billie Eilish packs a punch, again, on ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’: review

nypost.com

Billie Eilish's third album “Hit Me Hard and Soft” shows that the singer is just way ahead of her peers even when she misses.

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China Forbes: The Road – Album Review

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China Forbes: The Road Wrasse Records Vinyl | CD | DL available here Available 17th May The Road is the eagerly anticipated third solo album from China Forbes, the multilingual lead singer of Portland’s genre defying little orchestra Pink…

Rave reviews for 'bold, brilliant' Billie Eilish

www.bbc.co.uk

Critics call the album "explicit, sapphic and her best work yet", plus "confident and non-conformist".

Dea Matrona: Night And Day Cafe, Manchester – Live Review

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Dea Matrona | Housewife Night and Day Café, Manchester Tuesday 14th May 2024 Returning to a Manchester stage for possibly the sixth time, Dea Matrona, divine mothers of Irish Rock and Roll are promoting their new album For Your Sins on a…

Shaznay Lewis: Pages review – All Saints star returns with polished second solo album

www.theguardian.com

(1.9.7.5) Twenty years after her solo debut, Lewis delivers a mostly sumptuous set of turn-of-the-millennium-style pop

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Billie Eilish is a master of deception on mind-blowing new album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’: review

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The critical darling's sonic sleight of hand comes to play throughout her latest record, on which she contorts herself to toy with diverse genres and tempos.

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Billie Eilish Keeps Up Her Winning Streak With the Surprising and Intimate ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’: Album Review

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What a great season for music this is, if you’re someone who has an old-fashioned thing for albums that really feel like albums. And it’s not because of any wave of old-timers ganging up with each other to show off their concept-record…

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Kevin Richard Martin: Black – Album Review & Interview Part II

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Kevin Richard Martin: Black Intracranial Recordings LP | DL Out 17th May 2024 Pre-order vinyl here Less homage as textural expansion and frayed, ambient tapestry to the memory of Amy Winehouse, yet more an experiment to mount the…

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Music Review: Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' is zealous outsider pop in a league of her own

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''Am I acting my age now?'' Billie Eilish, 22, wonders aloud on the opening track to her ambitious third album, ''Hit Me Hard and Soft.''

Music Review: Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ is zealous outsider pop in a league of her own

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“Am I acting my age now?” Billie Eilish, 22, wonders aloud on the opening track to her ambitious third album,…

Thursday, May 16

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'Here There Are Blueberries' Review: At Leisure at Auschwitz

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A powerful play by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich at New York Theatre Workshop takes its inspiration from a photo album that depicts the concentration camp’s staff relaxing and enjoying themselves in close proximity to unimaginable…

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies album review – perfectly adequate but perfectly forgettable

www.theguardian.com

Kammerakademie Potsdam/Manacorda (Sony Classical, five CDs) Though the sound is lean and bright, and the articulation of the strings wonderfully crisp, this rehash of Beethoven’s Symphonies lacks character and excitement

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Album Review: Beth Gibbons, ‘Lives Outgrown’

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Beth Gibbons was searching for the right moment to compose her debut solo album – or maybe it was a matter of feeling. The singer-songwriter’s recorded output in the past two decades has included Portishead’s starkly haunting 2008 comeback…

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Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi; Chants de Terre et de Ciel album review – beguiling, soft-edged intimacy

www.theguardian.com

Hannigan/Chamayou (Alpha) The superb projection of Hannigan’s voice and the rainbow of colours in Chamayou’s piano lay bare the sexual desire and religious fervour prevalent in Messiaen’s early works

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Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft review – Her third album is not quite a genre bender, but this star is growing in sophistication

www.irishtimes.com

The singer seems to be tiring of being the introspective, disaffected pop spokeswoman for Gen Z. Hit Me Hard and Soft is altogether more personal

Billie Eilish review, Hit Me Hard and Soft: Pop star whispers her way to big emotional wallops

www.independent.co.uk

Are we finally seeing the artist behind the baggy-goth avatar? Interrogating her public image and fan culture, Eilish delivers a restless album that is equal parts sighing and squalling

Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft album review: Forget Taylor and Beyoncé, this is the pop album of the year

www.standard.co.uk

In a year marked by underwhelming big pop releases, the 22-year-old star stands out for her bold, risk-taking approach