Burial: Tunes 2011-2019 review

(Hyperdub)
The producer’s collected post-Untrue EPs reveal him as one of the most evocative voices in British music

The nights are drawing in and the weather outside is frightful, so it’s the time of year to reach for an old favourite – no, not just Michael Bublé but Burial, the south London producer whose tracks remain the perfect accompaniment to a moody illicit joint in the snow at your parents’ house over Christmas; the sound of cloud covering a 4pm dusk.

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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian

The Veronicas, Violent Soho, Jade MacRae: Australia's best new music for December

Each month we add 20 of the best new Australian songs to our Spotify playlist. Read about 10 of our favourites below – and subscribe on Spotify, which updates with the full list at the start of each month

Related: The 20 best songs of 2019

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by Nathan Jolly and Guardian Australia via Electronic music | The Guardian

The 50 greatest Christmas songs – ranked!

From John Fahey, the Sonics and the Waitresses to Slade, Wizzard and Mariah Carey, we count down the best festive numbers

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by Michael Hann via Electronic music | The Guardian

The 50 best albums of 2019: 41-50

We begin our pick of the year’s finest albums with gritty electropop, oddball songwriting, tender jazz, louche punk funk. Check in every weekday as we count down to No 1

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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes via Electronic music | The Guardian

Hannah Diamond: Reflections review – gloriously overwrought

(PC Music)

The press release for Hannah Diamond’s debut album hammers home the fact that the 28-year-old from Norwich is a real person. As the early figurehead for gonzo collective PC Music’s synthetic, hyper-real take on pop music, Diamond was caught in a wider conversation surrounding notions of authenticity, with her early singles dismissed as two-dimensional or, worse, the work of male geniuses using her as an avatar. Reflections, a gloriously overwrought breakup album, proves there’s a beating heart beneath Diamond’s self-aware, Photoshopped exterior.

Over 10 off-kilter songs, Diamond, whose deadpan, heavily tweaked vocals lend every word a sort of icy detachment, details the stages of a relationship ending, from catching a new flirtation on OTT hyper-ballad Invisible (“do you wish I wasn’t even there sometimes?”), to unpicking the moment of full implosion on the tactile Never Again.

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by Michael Cragg via Electronic music | The Guardian