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Album reviews: Mick Flannery’s Goodtime Charlie tells vivid, evocative stories about ordinary people

An apt follow-up to his 2021 album In The Game, Flannery’s latest is musically exploratory and well worth a listen

Album reviews: Olivia Rodrigo masters the art of credible storytelling

The American singer-songwriter tells her tales of poignant pain with an authenticity that belies her young age

Booker-longlisted novelist Elaine Feeney on childhood, the music of language and the power of place

Unlike many creative people, the Athenry author of How to Build a Boat has never felt the urge to escape from her past

Album reviews: Fizz find strength in some mighty numbers

Four solo artists from Britain and Ireland make the most of their combined skill in The Secret to Life, one of this year’s best pop offerings

Album reviews: Soda Blonde dreaming big with urbane, unsettling pop songs

The Irish band’s second album features a collection of tunes that veer from stark and vulnerable to ambitious and audacious

Album reviews: Teddy Thompson covers the bases with touching country collection

The singer songwriter bares his soul with a set of tunes from various artists on My Love of Country

Album reviews: Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One is a versatile mishmash of American song styles

Limerick-based multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has released her first solo record since 2017’s Freedom Highway, but it’s somewhat lacking the spark found on her collaborative work

Tony Clayton-Lea: On-form Hozier pulling new rabbits from magician’s hat in latest album Unreal Earth

Confident musician collaborates with other artists on his new album but there are no signs that you’re listening to anything other than Hozier

Album reviews: Manics’ Nicky Wire steps away from band’s usual style with eclectic solo effort

The second solo album by the Manic Street Preachers’ founding member has been digitally released on Bandcamp, the album distribution online platform

‘She was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ – Sinéad O’Connor’s life less ordinary

Throughout her tumultuous life, the resolutely outspoken protest singer remained very much her own person – begrudgers be damned

Album reviews: Snow Patrol revisit the past and remind us where it all began

The release of Final Straw’s 20th-anniversary edition has much to please fans, with plenty of extras on this double album

‘I milked the musical worth out of the Catholic Church for a while’ – singer Karen Cowley

After almost ten years with Wyvern Lingo, Cowley is about to launch her solo career

Album reviews: Blur majors on the melody and melancholy with robust new album

Thirty years on, the British band are still producing great pop tunes at the same time as more considered numbers

Album reviews: Mahalia dishes out lovelorn summer soundtrack on new album IRL

Precocious young musician comes of age with album of soulful ballads on breakup which share both heartbreak and joy in freedom

Album reviews: Lucinda Williams sings a raw song of triumph over adversity

Her remarkable stamina and strength, distinctive talent and unvarnished authenticity hit all the right notes in this collaborative album

Album reviews: Julie Byrne’s new album is tinged by tragedy but with an optimistic note

Album reviews: Sigur Rós’s music is the aural equivalent of watching the Aurora Borealis

First album from Icelandic group in ten years sees the group stretching the parameters of what mostly instrumental music can be

'Raw, honest, poetic and kind’: tributes flow as beloved Aslan front man Christy Dignam is laid to rest

The Dublin singer man had been ill for over a decade with a rare blood disorder but had continued to record and perform

Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri on losing her parents, sexism in music and the art of songwriting

Texas have sold over 40 million records, but lead singer Sharleen Spiteri doesn’t take the band’s continued success for granted. Here she talks about grief, songwriting, and why you should never give her a ‘woman of the year’ award.

Album reviews: Jenny Lewis keeps it country in her own inimitable style

As is her wont, veteran US singer/songwriter Jenny Lewis blends wit and wisdom in her latest offering