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Alexis Petridis

Alexis Petridis is the Guardian's head rock and pop critic

February 2025

  • LCD Soundsystem perform at Madison Square Garden in 2011.

    Ranked
    You wanted a hit? LCD Soundsystem’s 20 best songs – ranked!

    With Daft Punk Is Playing at My House turning 20 and a new album being worked on, we select the dance-rock musos’ finest tracks
  • John Glacier

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    John Glacier: Like a Ribbon album review – this otherworldly British voice is in a class of her own

    She frames herself as an alien visitor, and sure enough, this ideas-packed album at the edges of rap doesn’t sound like anyone else right now – you’ll be repeating it again and again

    • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
      Olly Alexander: Polari review – Hi-NRG throwback for the Radio 2 crowd

    • The 2025 Grammys celebrated pop being back to its agenda-setting best

      Alexis Petridis

    • The Brian Jonestown Massacre review – psych-rock survivors play it safe

January 2025

  • Abel Tesfaye, AKA the Weeknd

    The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow review – a record that will floor you … and drive you up the wall

  • Marianne Faithfull pictured in 1994.

    Melancholy, morphine and the Baader-Meinhof group: Marianne Faithfull’s 10 best recordings

  • Willing to take risks ... Marianne Faithfull.

    Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

    Alexis Petridis
  • James Brown at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, 23 May 1985.

    Ranked
    Soul, sermonising and wrestling Satan: James Brown’s 20 best albums – ranked!

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory album review – going goth to confront our grim world

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Central Cee: Can’t Rush Greatness review – conflict and contradiction underpin justly confident rap debut

  • Tina Turner: Hot for You Baby review – she’s in fine voice, but this lost 1984 song is no classic

  • Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar also puts artistic freedom on trial

    Alexis Petridis

  • Ranked
    ‘In her own out-there world’: FKA twigs’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – noise stalwarts’ journey into hell is unexpectedly heavenly

  • Sam Moore was more than a Soul Man – he was one of the 20th century’s great live performers

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  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out review – stomps straight to the top of British punk’s table

  • Ranked
    Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares: Petula Clark’s 20 best songs – ranked!

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Ethel Cain: Perverts review – pink noise and punishment as cult star heads underground

  • Billie Eilish, Sex Pistols and Beethoven’s skull: music to listen out for in 2025

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