What I’m listening to

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Kate Langton shares her top five songs, podcasts, and audiobooks that brighten her day.

The best albums by female artists in 2023.

Madeline Harding gives us some of her favourite 2023 album releases by female solo artists.

Christmas songs for those who hate Christmas.

If you like this, then you’ll like that (music edition).

The Beatles: ‘Now and Then,’ a Renaissance?

FKA twigs’ MAGDALENE: biblical allusions and the public eye

Is country music the genre of right-wing, straight, white men?

Mazzy Star: what is so endearing about notoriously sad music?

The holy and the broken: The philosophy of Leonard Cohen

The gruesome tale of Ethel Cain’s ‘Preacher’s Daughter’.