US Girls: Bless This Mess review – bodies, birth and dating pains
Meg Remy’s life-changing experiences colour a scattershot album that works best the closer it sticks to straightforward pop
February 2022
Various artists: Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono review – tribute to brilliance of rock icon’s music
Death Cab for Cutie, David Byrne and the Flaming Lips are among artists reworking Ono’s strange sound and outsider songs into something more palatable
December 2020
Best music of 2020
The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list
Our countdown is complete, topped by a mercurial work of sprawling invention by a woman who has dug deep to survive. Taken as a whole, these choices contain drama, solace, poetry and fire, a fitting selection for a turbulent year
May 2020
The best albums of 2020 so far
There’s shaken-up pop from Rina Sawayama, searching rap by J Hus and Jay Electronica, and invention everywhere from KeiyaA’s soul to Beatrice Dillon’s electronics
March 2020
Alt-pop star US Girls: 'Things happened to me as a kid that broke part of my brain'
US Girls: Heavy Light review – a major talent doubles down
February 2020
This week's new tracks
Tracks of the week reviewed: US Girls, Jake Shears, Grimes
The month's best music
50 great tracks for February from David Bowie, Waxahatchee, J Hus and more
December 2018
Best music of 2018
The 50 best albums of 2018: the full list
Our countdown is complete, and top spot goes to a timely blast of identity pop – adding to a fine selection of albums that range from the socially conscious to the political, as well as pure slices of ecstatic rock and cutting rap
March 2018
The month's best music
50 great tracks for March from Chvrches, Riko Dan, Machine Head and more
Check out Angolan kuduro, fluffy disco-funk and whimsical fingerpicking in this month’s roundup of the best new music. Subscribe to the playlist of all 50 tracks and read about our 10 favourites
February 2018
US Girls: In a Poem Unlimited review – joyous pop meets protest music
This week's new tracks
Tracks of the week reviewed: Noah Cyrus, Daphne and Celeste and James Bay
December 2016
'I'm moving to Canada': the cops, pop stars and athletes who made good on the threat
From the female squash champion fleeing the Taliban, to the gay popstar who became a hit back in macho Brazil, it’s often Canada’s newcomers who can tell its most dramatic stories
June 2016
Nicholas Allbrook of Pond's playlist: Benjamin Clementine, US Girls, John Wizards
Two Steps on the Water’s Yo-yo is just one highlight of a list including storming Lagos pop from Davido, the ‘wrong’ vocal gymnastics of Clementine and songs of female struggle by US Girls
April 2016
This week's new live music
This week’s new live music
Muse | Kiran Leonard | Jennylee | US Girls | Partikel | Principal Sound
October 2015
US Girls review – memorable, cinematic off-kilter pop
Meghan Remy’s distinctive voice perfectly links the musical melange of funk, electropop and warped beats, creating a captivating theatrical psychodrama
US Girls: ‘I like to do the opposite of everything that is making money’
On her sixth album, Toronto-based musician Meghan Remy roots for the everyday woman, from war widows to divorcees. She explains how pop needs more regular role models
US Girls: Half Free review – startling opener steals the plaudits
The chillingly simple pop song Remy’s Sororal Feelings is a startling beginning against which the spooked electronica of the other tracks, although impressive enough, struggles
July 2015
Thanks, eh: musicians that made it big when they moved to Canada
Sure, Drake and Justin Bieber went the other way – but on this Canada Day we celebrate the many non-Canadians who hit their stride once they moved north
