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Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

Arts writer and pop critic

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney has been writing for the FT since 1998.

In 2014 he won the London Press Club’s Arts Reviewer of the year award. He lives in London.

@ludohunter  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Been Stellar: Scream from New York, NY — new rock band thrum with vitality

    The fivesome’s debut album has the roaring momentum of a young band ready to go

    The five members of Been Stellar sitting languorously on wooden benches like those found in an old passenger ferry
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Kneecap: Fine Art — Northern Irish rap trio meld the Good Friday Agreement with nights on the town

    The group’s debut album makes careful and artful use of controversial ingredients

    Two men stand in front of a van with the word ‘kneecap’ spray-painted along the side and decorated with Irish flags. A man wearing a mask with the colours of the Irish flag sits in the driver’s seat. Two men in sunglasses and puffer jackets stand in front holding bottles and bags of chips. One of the men gives the middle finger.
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Karol G live — Colombian singer delivers fully charged show at O2 Arena

    The London leg of the Mañana Será Bonito tour was a fun and frothy pop spectacle on a massive scale

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Chaka Khan struggles to ignite Meltdown festival in London — live review

    The singer and curator launched this year’s edition at Southbank Centre with a show that lacked momentum

    A female singer stands on stage smiling, with her arms raised and outstretched, holding a microphone
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    ObituaryFrançoise Hardy
    Françoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter, 1944-2024

    The ‘ye-ye’ scene star came to symbolise the aesthetic of existentialist Left Bank Paris

    Francoise Hardy in Piazza Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, in the 1960s
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert — a singular strand of Black American music

    The long-awaited release of a 1965 live recording of the Georgia Sea Island Singers is musicologically fascinating

    Black and white photo of people standing in a group singing as a young girl looks suspiciously at the camera
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    John Grant: The Art of the Lie — painful truths hit home

    The singer-songwriter mingles dreamy melodies with unsettling excavations of a troubled childhood

    A bearded man with a baseball cap faces the camera holding up his hands
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Taylor Swift shakes off cold to electrify crowd of 73,000 in Edinburgh

    The megastar was warmly greeted but temporarily frozen on the first stop of her UK tour at Murrayfield Stadium

    A woman in a sparkly top sings into a microphone, her left hand outstretched
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Liam Gallagher, O2 Arena — nostalgic return to Definitely Maybe is let down by Noel-shaped hole

    Hits from Oasis’s 30-year-old debut delighted fans but lumbering B-sides and brotherly rancour dampened the mood

    A man in a sporty black top yells into a microphone
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Kaytranada’s Timeless — meticulous but middling

    Childish Gambino and Anderson .Paak are among many guest vocalists, but the songcraft feels unvarying and flat

    A man with dark short hair, a beard and tattoos on his arms and chest poses in a black vest with his arms folded.
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Charli XCX’s Brat shows us what she’s made of

    In one of her best albums yet, the UK singer mixes electropop and dance numbers with a new emotional vulnerability

    A woman with long dark hair and a white top stands in a doorframe
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Shaboozey joins the country music craze in Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going

    Western motifs are laid on heavily, from Ennio Morricone-style whistling to neighing horses

    A man with locs and wearing a midnight-blue satin bomber jacket sits on a brown suitcase on top of a black trunk in front of a brown backdrop. An acoustic guitar leans against the trunk
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Thou: Umbilical — masters of sludge go back to basics

    Basslines churn and riffs storm on the Louisiana band’s new record

    A man singing into a mic bends forwards as he puts one foot up in front of a drum kit on stage
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Nicki Minaj follows drugs drama with curfew-blowing show at London’s O2 Arena

    The rapper mixed Noo Yawk toughness with expressive shifts in pace and accent in an electric atmosphere

  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Five stars for the Pet Shop Boys, Koko, London — hit after hit from a band on intoxicating form

    Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe made their back catalogue of classics seem urgent and modern

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Vince Staples: Dark Times — escapist rap meets classic old-school beats

    The Californian rapper returns from an excursion into making darkly comic TV with a thoughtful record

    A black and white close-up of a man’s face with his eyes closed as if lost in deep thought
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Finom: Not God — Chicago duo rock out on catchy guitar-led album

    Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart sing on discordant tracks that sometimes sound like a malfunctioning engine

    A black and white photo of two women with long dark hair and dark clothing. The woman on the left pulls the waist of the skirt of the woman on the right, who raises her arms in front of her
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Lankum, Hackney Empire — folk songs freighted with heaviness and horror

    At their London show, the Dublin band defied stereotypes of traditional Irish music

    A woman sings into a microphone with her eyes closed, a sorrowful expression on her face
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft — the starriest anti-star returns

    The singer’s music is energised by her push-pull relationship with fame

    A young woman wearing a cap and dark glasses squats with her elbows on her knees and her hands on the sides of her head, looking straight ahead
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown — atmospheric folk-rock

    The Portishead singer has a powerful sense of feeling in her voice on her solo debut

    A woman with straight blond hair and wearing a black long-sleeved top, clutches a microphone with both hands while singing intensely with her eyes closed
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Olivia Rodrigo embraces energy and imperfection at the O2 Arena

    The Californian singer’s London show was spectacular but also had a strong sense of spontaneity

    A young woman in a sparkly silver bra-top and short skirt holds out her arms jokingly
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    ObituarySteve Albini
    Steve Albini, record engineer and musician, 1962-2024

    An apostle of noise fascinated by the dark side of human behaviour

    Steve Albini in his Chicago recording studio in 2014
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Keeley Forsyth evokes a glowering atmosphere in The Hollow

    Solemn songs unfold with intense singing, mournful beats and swelling drones

    A black-and-white photo of a woman showing only the side of her face with her dark hair blending into the black background
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Mitski brings out her theatrical side at Hammersmith Apollo — review

    The singer’s London show was distinguished by languid singing and striking choreography

    A female singer stands behind a microphone, making arm movements
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Neu Klang — ‘krautrock’ in the bands’ own words

    Christoph Dallach documents the musical renegades transforming Germany’s underground scene in the 1970s

    A black-and-white photo from 1970 shows a rock band performing outdoors
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