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If your ears, speakers and headphones need a workout, you should start with one of these best audiophile albums. Or better yet, all of them

30 years on from the release of their seminal third album dubnobasswithmyheadman, we assess the band’s stream-of-consciousness techno epics

If your ears, speakers and headphones need a workout, you should start with one of these best audiophile albums. Or better yet, all of them

Fintan O’Toole, Frank McNally, Rosita Boland and others on their school memories

When Laura Mvula was dropped by Sony Music in 2017 via a seven-line email, she was stunned and hurt, calling the move a "huge wake-up call." But Mvula now perceives that bad experience as a liberating one, giving her the freedom to figure out the artistic road she wanted to take. Now on Atlantic Records, Mvula is making up for lost time in 2021. She played her first concert in three years on February 24, a  livestream called "Laura Mvula Presents ... Under A Pink Moon," and she released not o...

Underworld Underworld are a British electronic music group formed in 1980 in Cardiff, Wales and the principal name of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith recording together. Prominent former members include Darren Emerson, from 1991 to 2001, and Darren Price, as part of the live band from 2005 to 2016. After performing as a funk and synth-pop band, resulting in two albums between 1988 and 1989, Underworld gained prominence, after reshaping in 1993, into a progressive house and techno band and releasing se...