Every #1 Album from Each Year of the IPU's Annual Countdowns.

When Stella Chronopoulou, the Athens-based producer who records as ∑tella, finished her new fifth album, Adagio, her first listen back set her hopes for the record.

"When I heard the whole thing."…

"Every day I wake, wait for the tragedy" sings Emily A. Sprague, as the very opening line of Jellywish, the fifth LP for her New York-based band Florist.

It sets the tenor…

"In a lot of ways it's been in the making my whole life," says Marlon Williams about his new album, Te Whare Tiwekaweka.

Written and sung entirely in te reo Māori, the…

"Lightness and softness," Marylou Mayniel acknowledges, are the definitive elements of the songs she records under the name Oklou.

The 31-year-old Paris-based producer makes music that uses ambient sounds in pop-song format; employing…

In 2024, Alan Sparhawk —after 30 years and 13 albums with the band Low— released his debut solo LP, White Roses, My God.

Low had come to an end following the death…

After releasing six albums under her own name, Sharon Van Etten has issued her seventh record with the band handle Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory.

The billing reflects the making of…

Sleater-Kinney —the iconic indie-rock outfit fronted by dual guitarist/vocalists Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker— formed 30 years ago in Olympia, Washington.

Within the first year of their existence, they ended up half a…

Tim Heidecker, of the comedy duo Tim and Eric, talks with Anthony Carew about moving between comedy and music, and about his new album High School, where he digs into half-forgotten memories…

Presenter Anthony Carew chats to 22-year-old American songwriter Lindsey Jordan about their album 'Valentine', the second LP for Snail Mail. The album discloses that the artist spent 45 days in a 'recovery facility…