Anamoe Drive: Breakfast in Bed – Like all your treasured singer-songwriters put through a sonic wringer
Thumper singer Oisín Leahy Furlong’s debut solo album is the yin to Thumper’s yang, a delicate, un-self-pitying collection of heartbreak songs
Nick Drake
‘It’s heartbreaking that I didn’t think of a way to make him happy’: Nick Drake’s producer on the doomed songwriter
The singer-songwriter died by suicide aged 26, convinced he was a failure. The three albums he left behind tell a different story
Donald Clarke: How do we know autumn is here? The Great British Bake Off is back
Anna Beattie pitched for four years before the BBC took a punt in 2009
David Kitt: 20 review – Late-night mellow intimacy
Introduction of beats and electronic elements overhauling many songs in the album
Birdy: Young Heart – London singer leaves her heart in Laurel Canyon
It’s too long and too in thrall to Blue-era Joni Mitchell, but there’s much to like here
Niamh Regan: Hemet review – Memorable debut from Galway singer
Thanks to her attention to detail, Regan has presented tunes with a collective distinctive oomph
Joshua Burnside: Into the Depths of Hell – a singular Northern Irish talent
The album is a brooding, tense affair but neither is it any way a difficult listen
Calm the house down with these sound for self-isolating
At times like these, we can turn to music to soothe our souls and restore equilibrium
I’d Love To Turn You On review – How David Bowie, the Beatles and others stole from the great composers
This compilation is a valuable reminder that even the most celebrated musicians didn’t think it all up on their own
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: A tremendous film, a great young director
Review: Tom Hanks stars as the family entertainer Mr Rogers in Marielle Heller’s film
Junior Brother: Pull the Right Rope review – The real paradoxical deal
Ronan Kealy’s style can sort the believers from the bemused
This Album Changed My Life: Nick Drake – Pink Moon (1972)
Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anna Mieke on the comfort she gets from Drake’s final album
From Shawn Mendes to Keaton Henson: The best pop and rock gigs this week
This week’s events also include a party on a boat and a chance to mosh on Good Friday
Hozier: Wasteland, Baby! – Track by track review of his new album
Andrew Hozier-Byrne makes a welcome return with a very nearly five-star collection of songs
Gig of the Week: Iron & Wine at the Helix
Before the songwriting took hold and a deal with Sub Pop, Sam Beam was a movie man
Philip Selway goes solo without switching off the Radiohead
Let Me Go review: The Radiohead drummer's solo effort contains plenty of what makes the band so great
‘I moved to New York with a guitar and $200, and ended up playing with Bowie’
For guitarist Gerry Leonard, the city itself has been his ‘biggest teacher’
From Stiff Little Fingers to Lynched: Rough Trade’s Irish bands
Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade Records, says he feels a deep connection with Irish culture
Decoding the enigma that is Alan Turing, the ghost in his own machine
London’s latest public art work speaks to us from beyond the grave
Bridget St John - Fly High review: deceptively lovely combination
St John’s warm, deep voice is the closest amalgam you’ll hear of Nick Drake and Nico
Shelf life: writers take us through their collections
Ahead of this year’s Dublin Book Festival, we ask some of the participating authors to tell us the stories behind the books in their personal collections
Review: Nick Drake: Remembered For A While, by Gabrielle Drake and Cally Callomon
A magnificent study of the melancholy singer-songwriter whose music has reached a new generation online
Music fans turn the tables for Record Store Day
The sixth year of the celebration bucked the downward trend for record sales
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