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Vintage effects in the singer’s first album in eight years underline the degree to which he has been left behind
...It also follows her biggest sales success yet as a songwriter, co-writing a hit EP released last year by the K-pop girl group NewJeans....
...The mixed languages and vocals are typical of K-pop, and can be frenetic — but not so here....
...People waved glowing plastic hearts on sticks, a common prop in South Korean K-pop. “Jay” was written on the hearts in Roman script alongside Chinese characters....
...K-pop girl group NewJeans rub shoulders with US rapper JID and Colombian singer Camilo on “Be Who You Are (Real Magic)”, a Sesame Street-style paean to self-acceptance so sickly sweet that it comes with...
...None of those novels, though, boasts the uniqueness of Oliver K Langmead’s Calypso (Titan £12.99), which tells a generation starship tale in blank verse — and hats off to the editor who got that through...
...For me it started with buying a first edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 classic, The Long Goodbye. Next it became a full set of American first editions. Then others....
...Gordon Lish’s drastic and fastidious work on Raymond Carver’s prose created the author’s stripped-down style....
...Meanwhile, the FT’s porcine critic slipped incognito into row K, block 110, notebook and poisonous pen at hand....
...“K-pop albums have been released on Chinese music-streaming platforms and local small-scale K-pop-related events have been held by fans....
...It’s the same at other wirehouses like UBS and Raymond James. That’s where the loan balances come from....
...The puzzle was created by Raymond Smullyan in 1957. Chess 2394 1...Kh5 and 1...Kh3 both draw, but the game ended 1...Kf3?? 2 Nh4+! and Black resigned because of 2...Ke3 3 Rg3+!...
...Raymond Pierrehumbert, professor of physics at the University of Oxford, acknowledges that while people are “legitimately in a panic about the climate crisis”, the unknowable side effects and governance...
...The company’s second-quarter operating profit margin is likely to be 15.5 per cent, according to Raymond James....
...The company’s chef’s table opened last year as “a stage to showcase the product”, says Hunter....
...The positivity is ratcheted up even further on “My Universe” in which K-pop supremos BTS lend their boyish voices to a formulaically upbeat number about the cosmic power of love.Music of the Spheres borrows...
...“Things are only likely to get worse in the near term,” Capital Economics’ Hunter said....
...Made with his son, James Raymond, it opens with “River Rise” in which Crosby announces that it is “late in California” over a funereally tolling piano note....
...The lyric appeared on a track called “H-K (Hunter-Killer)” — no relation to your correspondent — which was about a Terminator-style killing machine acting as judge, jury and executioner, voiced with larynx-shredding...
...K-Trap introduces himself as a “trapper with a silent ‘t’” at the start of his debut album....
...He was one of rock music’s most celebrated drummers, writes pop critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, and was a member of the British band from its earliest days....
...The K-pop boom continues....
...That was him in “Mon Raymond”, for instance, from her 2013 album Little French Songs....
...Charles K Harris’s How to Write a Popular Song was a best-selling pioneer in 1906....
...The bounty hunter Rick Deckard is the main character in which Philip K Dick novel? Who was the Liberal party leader during the 1988 merger with the Social Democrats?...
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