Havergal Brian: The Gothic album review – Ole Schmidt tames a vast, eccentric score
LSO/Schmidt(Heritage)A 1980 live recording reveals the Danish conductor’s assured handling of a colossal symphony – a balance of architectural clarity and gothic extravaganceHavergal Brian has often been looked at askance, his vast gothic…
Ari Lennox: Vacancy review – the R&B sophisticate’s loosest and most fun outing yet
(Interscope)On her third LP, Lennox balances jazz-soaked tradition with flashes of unruly humour and a surefire viral hitAri Lennox is one of contemporary R&B’s premier sophisticates, preferring a palette of lush jazz, soul and 90s…
Carousel review – Chris Pine and Jenny Slate are lost in static romance drama
Sundance film festival: an often lushly made yet frustratingly undercooked small town indie kicks off this year’s festival with disappointmentAnd so this year’s Sundance has officially begun, with grief over the loss of founder Robert…
Custody: The Secret History of Mothers by Lara Feigel – why women still have to fight for their children
Feigel uses her own experience as a starting point to examine the past, present and future of separationThis book about child custody is, unsurprisingly, full of pain. The pain of mothers separated from their children, of children sobbing…
TV tonight: get ready to scream at the screen through The Traitors final
It may not have lived up to its celebrity offspring, but this season has offered brightness in the January gloom. Plus, David Baddiel meets Wilfred the ugly cat. Here’s what to watch this evening8.30pm, BBC OneA secret Traitor. Fiona v…
‘An environmental nuclear bomb’: documentary examines fight to save Great Salt Lake
Sundance film festival: A cautionary new film, executive-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, warns of the devastating consequences if the Utah lake continues to disappearThe Sundance film festival kicked off its final edition on Thursday in…
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry review – a dazzling puzzle-box of a debut
The plight of a reluctant medieval king is glimpsed through scattered pieces of the past, in an ingenious novel that asks how much we can really know about historyIn a medieval palace an unnamed king chafes under the new and unsought…
‘Some artists thought it was too political’: can Jarvis, Damon, Olivia Rodrigo and Arctic Monkeys reboot the biggest charity album of the 90s?
Oasis, Macca and Radiohead made Help a smash for War Child in 1995. A new reboot packs comparable star power – and was partially produced from a hospital bedWhen Kae Tempest was asked to contribute to a new track by Damon Albarn, which…