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    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

    Arts writer and pop critic

    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney has been writing for the FT since 1998.

    In 2014 he won the London Press Club’s Arts Reviewer of the year award. He lives in London.

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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Doja Cat: Scarlet — rapper puts freedom over fans with smart hip-hop

      The Californian’s lyrics have a sure ear for rhyme and range from crude to absurd

      Female pop artist Doja Cat poses in front of old TV sets wearing a pink sleeveless top and a mini skirt
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Kylie Minogue: Tension — Padam Padam sets unmatchable peak

      The lead single is no late-career fluke, even if this is not all vintage Kylie

      Kylie Minogue holds a large gemstone over her eye, her face bathed in a green light while a bright background fades from yellow to orange
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Goth by Lol Tolhurst — doom and musical gloom

      Funereal outfits, trippy guitars, thunderous drums: goth music is one of the most enduring sub-genres in rock. But why?

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      FT SeriesIcons only – the HTSI autumn arts special 2023
      J Balvin takes on the art world

      The reggaeton superstar has teamed up with Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu to bring art – and awareness – to Gen Z

      Melissa Chiu and J Balvin in front of Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart, 2023, by Yayoi Kusama, at David Zwirner, New York
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      InterviewMusic
      Russian rock star Boris Grebenshikov: ‘Millions are afraid to think, afraid to speak out’

      Now based in London, the singer is working on a new album with western stars to raise money for a Ukraine children’s hospital.

      A man with a greying beard wearing a bandana sits on stage playing an acoustic guitar; next to him is a model of Yoda, a candle and a human skull
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We — richly sonorous mysteries

      The artist’s songs continue to inspire with considerable lyricism and meaning that must be decoded

      Black and white photo of a young woman crouching in a kimono
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Corinne Bailey Rae opens a new chapter with Black Rainbows

      The singer’s fourth album has a different energy from its predecessors, inspired by an artist’s residency in the US

      A woman stands against an olive background wearing a sequined black top with tulle rising dramatically from the shoulders
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Who was the real Amy Winehouse?

      As we approach what would have been the singer’s 40th birthday, the lurid tales are giving way to a more considered appreciation of her work

      Amy Winehouse sits on a chair, one leg crossed over the other, her hands held up to her head
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Olivia Rodrigo: Guts album review — quick-witted post-Taylor-Swift pop

      The 20-year-old returns with emo-adjacent pop-punk and bombast-free ballads

      A portrait photo of Olivia Rodrigo, with wavy chestnut hair and a black lace top
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Róisín Murphy: Hit Parade — amid the controversy is an album worth listening to

      The Irish singer has been in the headlines for other reasons but her new release resembles an eccentric chill-out mix

      A woman with striking blue eyes looks straight at the camera
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      ReviewMusic
      Siouxsie Sioux returns with dark grooves but undimmed charisma

      The reluctant ‘queen of goth’ brought unexpected levity and authoritative vocals to London’s Troxy

      A singer in chiffon suit raises a hand into the air, surrounded by a backing band
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Royal Blood: Back to the Water Below — rock’s supposed saviours reach their limit

      There are clear echoes of Jack White and Muse but lack of originality is mitigated by a sure ear for riff-making

      Royal Blood’s Ben Thatcher, wearing a baseball cap, and Mike Kerr, wearing a polka-dotted shirt, bathed in a blue light
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Puma Blue: Holy Waters — bedroom pop takes a big step forward

      Jacob Allen’s second album has moved on from his intimate, hazy style

      Puma Blue stands in front of a closed doorway in a stone wall, covering his eyes with his fingertips
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      HTSI
      A Thom Yorke painting: yours for a song

      The Radiohead frontman has collaborated on the band’s artwork for 30 years. Now, he’s ready to make some noise about it

      Thom Yorke (left) and Stanley Donwood in the exhibition space at Cromwell Place, with (from left) their artworks Frozen Raw, Beginning Without End, Membranes, Besuch, and One of Many, all 2022
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Jon Batiste: World Music Radio — the Grammy winner loses his place

      The musician’s concept album about global music and inclusiveness fails to take off

      A man sits on a boulder next to a grammophone and archaic tech equipment. Behind him are rolling mountains
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Hozier: Unreal Unearth — solitude, spirituality and a touch of Dante

      The singer’s roar is as impressive as ever but he also deploys other vocal styles to fine effect in his third album

      A pensive-looking Hozier seated against a twilight-like sea of colors in the background
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Jessy Lanza delivers dance floor beats and sensual sounds in Love Hallucination

      The Canadian singer ups the tempo while creating a sense of musical intimacy in her latest record

      Brown-haired Jessy Lanza wears a white shirt and coral lipstick. Behind her is a green natural background and a yellow metal object.
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Joni Mitchell makes a gleeful comeback in At Newport

      The venerated singer-songwriter’s feel for melody remains intact in this live recording

      Three women — Brandi Carlile on the left in a floral-pattern jacket, Joni Mitchell in the middle in a blue beret and sunglasses, Wynonna Judd with bright red hair and a black blouse on the right — stand close together smiling
    • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
      Music
      Ukraine’s live music scene and the acts keeping it alive

      Kyiv-born singer LAUD on touring during the war and British band The Tiger Lillies on being one of the first to return

      A band on the stage
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Blur sound older, wiser and calmer in The Ballad of Darren

      Lyrics explore loss and confusion and guitar textures add musical depth in the band’s latest record

      Four members of Blur standing and sitting around a piano in a cluttered recording studio
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Mahalia chooses quality songcraft over flashy moves in IRL

      The Leicestershire-raised singer delivers uncluttered R&B with adroit singing

      Strawberry blond-haired Mahalia poses in a dark brown leather jacket against a blue background
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
      AI in the music industry

      New tools can create compositions, clone voices and recommend songs to listeners — but can it match the human interaction with fans?

    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      FT Weekend podcast22 min listen
      AI hits the music industry

      Ludo Hunter-Tilney talks us through the implications of AI-generated music and the reaction from the industry

    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Nick Drake and Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler — twinned under a musical dark star

      Born a year apart and just miles from each other, two books chart the singers’ contrasting careers of decibels, debauchery, depression — and death

    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      J Hus: Beautiful and Brutal Yard — menacing and multi-layered

      The London rapper inhabits various roles on his third album, from badman to Casanova

      A close-up shot of J Hus wearing a forest green puffer jacket, touching his forehead with his index and middle finger
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