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Kitty Empire

Kitty Empire is the Observer's pop critic. She has written for NME and occasionally crops up on Radio 4, 5Live, BBC 6Music, and has appeared on BBC2's The Culture Show and Newsnight Review. @kittyempire666

April 2025

  • Olly Alexander performs at the Palladium, London

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Olly Alexander review – part night creature, part light entertainer

    The singer and actor hints at an outre new synth-heavy sound, drawn largely from latest album Polari. He stops short, though, of scaring his daytime TV fans
  • Bon Iver

    Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – Justin Vernon’s most easy-going record yet

    This companion album to last year’s Sable EP gives those sorrowful songs a soulful lift, with Vernon’s beautiful falsetto vocals to the fore

    • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Kae Tempest review – a brave, intimate set where the personal is political

    • 2hollis: Star review – sounds like the internet and bound for stardom

    • Children and teens roundup – the best new chapter books

March 2025

  • Perfume Genius lying on his back in a kitchen with his feet on the open oven door

    Artist of the week
    Perfume Genius: Glory review – full of energy and biting nuance

  • Alison Krauss and Union Station

    Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia review – a fresh start

  • FKA Twigs performing on stage with dancers.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    FKA twigs review – an eye-popping extravaganza of dancing and demons

  • Michelle Zauner.

    Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) review – a bit too tasteful

  • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Michael Kiwanuka review – big sounds from the quiet maestro

  • Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a wholesale rewind to core career values

  • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Jack White review – rock’n’roll showman makes believers of us all

  • The Tubs: Cotton Crown review – a blistering, joy-to-heartbreak masterpiece

February 2025

  • Cyndi Lauper in concert at 02 Arena, London

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Cyndi Lauper review – a freedom fighter’s swan song

    Forty years after her feminist breakout hit, the New York singer bows out of live performance with a show rich in colourful pop and personal anecdotes, while never losing sight of women’s basic rights…
  • Park Jiha looking to camera, covering her right eye with her hand

    Park Jiha: All Living Things review – effortlessly straddles ambient and modern classical

    The Korean composer’s fourth album calls to mind Björk, Philip Glass and more as traditional instruments and electronic touches evoke the rhythms of life

    • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Jpegmafia review – hip-hop gunslinger blasts away at his many targets

    • Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory album review – back in rock mode, with a twist

    • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Kehlani review – R&B tonic is just what the doctor ordered

January 2025

  • Will Oldham, AKA Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.

    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: The Purple Bird review – Will Oldham goes country, but darkly

  • Floating Points perform at the Outernet venue in Central London. 22/1/25

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Floating Points review – an unclassifiable triumph

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