Released at the height of the civil rights era, I Put a Spell on You reveals Nina Simone in transition — elegant, defiant, and impossible to pin down.

2024 has been a pretty blockbuster year for music so far - we've seen virtually every major pop star release something (to varying levels of quality), as well as a bunch of rising artists we're watching with a keen eye. Here is the rundown of Best Albums : 2024 (So Far), our favourite LPs of the year, unranked and in reverse chronological order, whittled down by our rabid "board" of contributors, writers, reviewers and music fanatics. In our playlist above, you'll find four

Half of 2021 is gone and there has been no shortage of fantastic albums to get us through inside while outside remains, well, insane.