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The poem 'Love Recognized' by Robert Penn Warren seems to portray the onrush of love less as a time of connection or magical transformation than as some kind of isolating and cataclysmic event. The guiding metaphor is one of snow that far from cosseting the landscape or allowing us to hunker down cosily against a backdrop of brilliant white...

A chugging backbeat and twinkling keys herald 'Opal' and its shifting patchwork of colours, at once common and precious, an interplay of stunning rainbow iridescences with a more muted or earthy palette of sweet honeyed reds and yellows or Tiffany blues and milky greens. The song leads out Scenes from Above, the guitarist Julian Lage's fifth outing on Blue...

For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...