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Hannah Peel

April 2022

  • Hannah Peel performing with Paraorchestra.

    Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra: The Unfolding review – where’s the big bang?

    This overly orthodox classical-electronic crossover only occasionally captures the spirit of natural and cosmic forces

March 2021

  • Hannah Peel photographed at the specialist hi-fi shop Audio Gold, north London

    Neuroscience, the cosmos and trees: going deep with composer Hannah Peel

    The musician and presenter has had an extraordinary career so far. She discusses her next step - an album embracing the natural world through electronica

December 2017

  • Northern Irish artist and electronic composer Hannah Peel.

    Best music of 2017
    Observer readers' hidden musical gems of 2017

    Last week, Observer music critics nominated albums that didn’t get the coverage they deserved. Now it’s the readers’ turn…

July 2017

  • Hannah Peel: PRS FOUNDATION'S NEW MUSIC BIENNIAL, Hull, 2017 Saturday-10

    New Music Biennial review – from the startling and striking to the cinematic and scabrous

    With 20 new works squeezed into a breathless weekend in Hull, there was a startling variety of contemporary music – from Hannah Peel to Mark Simpson – on offer in the city of culture

November 2016

  • Hannah Peel.

    Awakenings: Hannah Peel on how she harnessed music's power to cut through dementia

    When the musician began to lose her gran to dementia, she fought back – with song. The results were so successful, they grew into a vast musical exploration

June 2016

  • Beyond the wizards sleeve

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Beyond the Wizards Sleeve: The Soft Bounce review – 60s psychedelia goes acid house

    Erol Alkan and Richard Norris started ushering the lysergic sounds of vintage psych on to the dancefloor via their remix work a decade ago. Now their debut of original songs finally arrives, and their initial vision is very much intact

May 2016

  • Photographs from 1984 by Stephen McCoy of Skelmersdale

    Ballads for Lancashire's lost utopia

    Skelmersdale, the Lancashire town where 1960s planners tried – and failed – to create a utopia, is celebrated in a new concept album. But what happened to our dreams of ideal homes for everyone?

April 2012

  • The Magnetic North

    Indie bands get into the island life

    Ibiza has influenced dance music for years. But what's the sound of Orkney or Eigg?

January 2011

  • Hannah Peel: The Broken Wave - review

    Maddy Costa hears surprising boldness combined with cool restraint in Hannah Peel's debut
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