Congratulations to pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu, who has won Gramophone's Concept Album Award for his album Colouring Book. The album is centred on richly detailed performances of Debussy’s Études, 12 pieces in two books that here frame a selection of 21st-century études, which build on Debussy’s own consolidation of the genre.
The Montreal-based artist blends folk intimacy and alt-pop glow on a slow-burning track about the ache of feeling like an afterthought.
With his genre-blending sound, Golden is redefining Colombia's contemporary music scene by weaving R&B and Afrobeats into a Latin sound that's distinctly his own. His array of global influences comes to life in this smooth performance of "Otra Nota."
Leonie Biney is back from the studio, with her new single "Groupie", that is about how it feels to have an unrequited crush and how it can become all consuming. It describes how it feels to want someone to notice you, to allow them to have so much power over your very being while they’re hardly aware of your existence. It’s about wanting to be something, anything, to this person, and the mental and emotional toll this can take on you.