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Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane review – at 83, his gift for melody still astounds

Paul McCartney's new album, *The Boys of Dungeon Lane*, is presented as a nostalgic look back at his early Liverpool childhood. The album, his 27th studio release, features songs with a master's finesse, drawing inspiration from his formative years. The launch was further highlighted by premiering the first single on BBC Radio Merseyside.

Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody

Fingal's Cave: Scotland's 'cave of melody' where eerie echoes bounce off pillars of solidified lava

Supporting complex care with confidence and compassion

Supporting complex care with confidence and compassion After years of working with children and youths with intellectual disabilities, senior psychologist Melody Tan Hui Shan sought deeper clinical training through NIE’s Master of Arts (Applied Psychology) to deliver more tailored care. For close to 15 years, Ms Melody Tan Hui Shan worked with young people aged seven to 18 years old at MINDS Fernvale Gardens School, providing interventions, caregiver guidance and school-based services for...

UniVoice: A Unified Model for Speech and Singing Voice Generation

arXiv:2606.05852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-speech (TTS) and singing voice synthesis (SVS) both aim to generate human vocal audio from symbolic inputs, but they impose different requirements on the generation process. Speech generation relies on flexible, language-driven prosody, whereas singing generation requires explicit melody control and accurate rhythmic alignment. This mismatch makes it challenging to train a single model that can generate both natural speech and...

‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new album

At 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s given him ‘every hope that we’ll get through’• Alexis Petridis reviews The Boys of Dungeon Lane: ‘At 83, his gift for melody still astounds’‘How far do you want to go back?” In his office overlooking Soho Square in London, Paul McCartney and I sit together on a small sofa, reminiscing. The room smells deep and resinous and...

Country diary: A late-night nightingale serenade | Nic Wilson

Strawberry Hill, Bedfordshire: After an evening round the campfire, we head into the wonderfully, chaotically alive scrub, to hear the headline act“Now I walk in beauty / Beauty is before me”. Earlier this evening we learned the simple melody to this Navajo prayer, and sang it as a round in the hawthorn clearing, adding our voices to the chorus of chiffchaff, blackcap and garden warbler.

Danish String Quartet review – captivating performance from a world-class group

Wigmore Hall, LondonThe quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody played as a distant memory by the first violin, which reached slowly upwards to a final crystalline harmonic. Pizzicato, diminuendo, silence.

Zoh Amba: Eyes Full review – raw, rugged country rock also has real tenderness

(Matador)Better known as a formidable free jazz saxophonist, these thrashing songs about the artist’s Tennessee childhood home share a similar genre-pushing intensityOn opening track OCD, Zoh Amba stops a twinkling, rootsy guitar melody and starts over, searching for the right way to tell the story of a boy diagnosed with “dreamin’ all the time”. Amba lands on a queasy combination of empathy and conspiracy (“said that mind needs fixin’ / gunna end up like everybody”), churned up by...

Zoh Amba: Eyes Full review – raw, rugged country rock also has real tenderness

(Matador)Better known as a formidable free jazz saxophonist, these thrashing songs about the artist’s Tennessee childhood home share a similar genre-pushing intensityOn opening track OCD, Zoh Amba stops a twinkling, rootsy guitar melody and starts over, searching for the right way to tell the story of a boy diagnosed with “dreamin’ all the time”. Amba lands on a queasy combination of empathy and conspiracy (“said that mind needs fixin’ / gunna end up like everybody”), churned up by...