Ankle-deep in ducks

McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026

To meet you in the falling rain...

Paul finds a new direction at the end of the world

Cathedral swoopings

The honeyed, potent swoon of the Cocteau Twins

Rich conceptual orrery

A review of the Magnetic Fields reissued 69 Love Songs, and a Q&A with Stephin Merritt

The last days of disco

Pet Shops Boys in the rock and roll years

Scary monsters

Dry Cleaning explain how art and humour are our best defence from techbro supercreeps

Losing in front of your home crowd

Heaven doesn’t seem to be your home

Farewell cheerless marshes

Hooray for Hollywood

You know your luck too well

Four years of scandal, acclaim, revenge and betrayal

Good times for a change

It is your sacred mission to restore the sanctity of the Pop Moment

THE CHRISTOPHERS

McKellen carries the whole thing quite magnificently on his pale, scrawny, octogenarian shoulders

KÖLN 75

By capturing the skronky zeitgeist, Fluk enriches our experience of the performance more vividly than a conventional biopic