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The whole of this album is more persuasive than the sum of its parts

Rainbow Milk: Bracing debut on racism, rent boys and religion

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Normal People: Putting Sally Rooney’s novel on the small screen

The project marries two of Ireland’s most talented artists – Rooney and director Lenny Abrahamson

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

Simon and Garfunkel for people who don’t like Simon and Garfunkel

Donald Clarke: Never cool, Bridge over Troubled Water spans tastes half a century on

Burial: Tunes 2011–2019 review - Mindblowing compilation by the producer of the century

This collection constitutes arguably the finest compilation of the last 10 years

Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’

New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring

Burt Bacharach and Macy Gray: This week’s best rock and pop gigs

The KnockanStockan festival and Mac DeMarco are among the other highlights

New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes review – Euphoric Manchester elegy

Ambitious and joyous work to remind us that New Order are best behind the synthesizer

Wild garlic: A herb good enough to bring Europe back together

There doesn’t seem to be a country in Europe that doesn’t have a wild garlic dish

Avicii: ‘I had to honour him’ – the friends who finished his final album

The collaborators behind finishing the EDM star’s album Tim on their sensitive task

The Cranberries: In the End review – Dolores O’Riordan’s remarkable swansong

The Cranberries final album is an unexpected late career high for the band

Is Mark Fisher this century’s most interesting British writer?

Rob Doyle on k-punk, an unmissable, 800-page collection of the late thinker’s work

The Twilight Sad: It Won/t Be Like This All the Time review: fine fifth album from great Scots

Willard Grant Conspiracy: Untethered review – Potent and brilliant swansongs

Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley: Master of the three-minute punk anthem

Singer crafted some of the defining songs of the punk era

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