For your ears: here are our music reviews of the week

Each week, our journalists give you their opinion on three new musical releases recently released on QUB musique. To discover…

dreamlike journey

It’s been ten years since Alt-J amazed us with his excellent first album, An Awesome Wave. Although we’ve lost interest in Joe Newman’s band a little over the years, here comes a captivating fourth album for the British band. On The Dream, Alt-J turns out to be in great shape, the album containing small jewels. There is the excerpt U&MEwhich offers classic Alt-J, and the beautiful ballad Get Better. But where the group hits hardest is in the sequence of titles Chicago and philadelphia. The first takes our guts with a vibrant crescendo, while the second makes us nod with its catchy melody. Even if the album runs out of steam a little at the end of the course, Alt-J made us dream. (Raphael Gendron-Martin)

The Dream ★★★1⁄2

► An Alt-J album

catch some sun

Do you want to jiggle, travel by proxy and imagine yourself dancing under the sun of a country where there is no winter? The Scrapbook Catch Me If You Can by Nigerian artist Adekunle Gold transports, from the first listen, to where the weather is nice. The 14 pieces of afrobeat forming this 4^and studio album show the evolution of the different characters that the artist has played over time. His transition to a more pop sound continues and is, all in all, successful. Favorites for the song born again (with Fatoumata Diawara), the eponymous piece Catch Me If You Can and Mase Mi ; the latter revealing the natural voice of the singer, nicely free of digital distortions. (Sarah-Emilie Nault)

Catch Me If You Can ★★★1⁄2

► An album by Adekunle Gold

Featured Composers

Twenty-fifth album by Angèle Dubeau and her ensemble La Pietà. It highlights works by contemporary female composers. There are several small jewels with Requiem for my Mother: Libera Me (Rebecca Dale) Eliza Aria (Elena Kats-Chernin), Flight (Rachel Portman) Introspection (Jocelyn Pook) Arise (Isobel Waller-Bridge) and the celestial O Virtus Sapientiae by the German composer Hildegard Von Bingen, the only foray into the past. In Memory, by Kati Makdissi-Warren, the violinist makes a bold nod to the Inuit nation with throat singing insertions. An opus full of beautiful discoveries. (Yves Leclerc)

She ★★★1⁄2

► An album by Angèle Dubeau and the Pietà