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All for you! Janet Jackson, Snõõper, Bob Dylan and more: the best music of autumn 2024
From Chat Pile’s apocalyptic noise to Nala Sinephro’s celestial bliss, plus posthumous releases from MC5 and Sophie, here are the albums and tours not to miss – while in classical, Kahchun Wong takes over at the Hallé
Gone are the band’s hymnals and staticky distortion; in its place are vocoder-heavy vocals indebted to Neil Young’s Trans, Prince’s Camille and even Cher’s tweaky 1998 single Believe, alongside production that shares DNA with 100 Gecs’ whacked-out signal-noise ratio and Kim Gordon’s latter-day embrace of trap. Photograph: Sophia Evans/the ObserverBritain’s foremost new-music festival has yet to announce its full programme for this year, but Lina Lapelytė will be the composer-in-residence, and the opening weekend will include a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Arditti Quartet, and the UK premieres of Anna Cleare’s Terrarium, Okkyung Lee’s Signals and Enno Poppe’s new work for 10 drum kits. Ludovic Morlot, the BBC Philharmonic’s chief guest conductor, takes charge of a rare performance of Messiaen’s greatest orchestral work, his monumental celebration of the birds and landscapes of the deserts of Utah to Manchester, composed to mark the US bicentennial in 1976; Steven Osborne is the pianist, and Martin Owen plays the famous horn solo, Interstellar Call.
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