Tara Nome Doyle: Værmin – Grace and ambition in fine voice

Doyle explores the voice as instrument on a kind of concept album

Maria Kelly: The Sum of the In-Between – A reflective yet expansive work

Kelly’s vocals bring life to this album recorded in a small cottage on the south coast

Keaton Henson: Monument review – A sobering and raw account of grief

An ode to the musician's father manages to memorialise something fundamental

Jason Molina: Eight Gates review – An intimate and faintly epic wonder

Posthumous new record from the prolific musician shows how he became a beacon

Jessy Lanza: All the Time review – Uplifting glitches and squiggles

The Canadian's third album is powerful in its hopeful nature, its cradling of intimacy

Jehnny Beth: To Love Is To Live review – Exploring the borderline

Debut solo album from Savages’ lead singer aims to ask questions rather than seek answers

Donnacha Dennehy: The Hunger review – Innovative exploration of the Famine

This ‘docu-cantata’ examines a painful period for Ireland through compelling music

The National: I Am Easy to Find review – A bold ambitious collision of the past, present

Band’s eighth studio record interrogates and takes apart what brought them together

Jeff Tweedy: Warm review – Clear-sighted tenderness and deadpan wit

The Eskies – And Don’t Spare the Horses review: A melodramatic melding of genres

Aretha Franklin: A Brand New Me – getting the respect she deserves

Chris Rock on why bullies work and his “scary ass drive” through Limerick

“Comfort is the poison” reads the on-screen message, as Rock wrongfoots his audience at every turn during an incendiary show

The Irish Times joins Body and Soul festival on the Wonderlust stage

The Irish Times will be partnering with the festival on Saturday with a programme of talks and debates

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