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Danny L Harle: Cerulean review – an earnest homage to early 00s bangers or a poor imitation?

On a high-minded album boasting a weighty guest list including Dua Lipa and Clairo, the superproducer lacks the hooks of the pop-trance he’s so heavily influenced by

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“Her love for ornamental melodies and hypnotic lyricism fit perfectly into my sound world”: Producer Danny L Harle enlists “dream collaborator” PinkPantheress for Starlight, a song inspired by ‘90s Eurodance, '00s trance… and Elizabethan madrigals

“Her love for ornamental melodies and hypnotic lyricism fit perfectly into my sound world”: Producer Danny L Harle enlists “dream collaborator” PinkPantheress for Starlight, a song inspired by ‘90s Eurodance, '00s trance… and Elizabethan madrigals

“Starlight reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy - a guiding light in all of my music,” says Harle

“PC Music was just two guys in a room making stuff and uploading it to the internet - that’s where it starts”: Danny L Harle on self-discovery, success and helping unsigned artists find their sound

“PC Music was just two guys in a room making stuff and uploading it to the internet - that’s where it starts”: Danny L Harle on self-discovery, success and helping unsigned artists find their sound

One of pop's most visionary producers, Harle has worked with Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek. Now he's passing on his wisdom to six aspiring music-makers as part of the Amex Unsigned initiative

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Olly Alexander review – part night creature, part light entertainer

The singer and actor hints at an outre new synth-heavy sound, drawn largely from latest album Polari. He stops short, though, of scaring his daytime TV fans

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“As soon as I played the demo I was just like ‘Yes! There he is!’ It was at the level of his old Erasure stuff, of Yazoo and his period of Depeche Mode": Producer Danny L Harle and Olly Alexander on their "extraordinary" collab with a synth-pop legend

“His musical point is so distilled in his music, and he’s the same in the way he talks,” says Harle. “He’s a man of few words”

Olly Alexander: Polari review – Hi-NRG throwback for the Radio 2 crowd

The actor-singer’s solo debut proper looks to 1980s gay clubland for inspiration, but plays it too safe under all the retro synths and stammered-vocal effects

The Guardian - UK

“Its sounds, and the producers responsible for them, have inspired many big developments in mainstream music”: Exploding the vibrant components of hyperpop

This particular genre has certainly surpassed its DIY beginnings to influence a surprising number of top artists.

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Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review – a banger-filled missive from dating land

Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review – a banger-filled missive from dating land

Talk of a new musical direction proves unfounded as the Grammy-winning singer’s third album shares more retro-inspired dance pop and lessons from her love life

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Dua Lipa - Illusion: this French House-influenced dance banger gets the job done

A polished take on Noughties dance, this is a straightforward if slightly predictable club thumper

Evening Standard

Dua Lipa unleashes empowering anthem signaling end of training season.

Dua Lipa unleashes empowering anthem signaling end of training season.

Dua Lipa releases 'Training Season,' the second single from her upcoming album, expressing her desire for a deeper connection and personal growth. The musi...

Dua Lipa hints at "raw" third album inspired by personal experiences and UK culture

The star also spoke about buying back her publishing rights. “Pay attention early on," she advised young artists, "especially in the business side of things… "

Evening Standard

Dua Lipa: Houdini review – vanishing-act anthem destined for total ubiquity

Dua Lipa: Houdini review – vanishing-act anthem destined for total ubiquity

Co-produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and PC Music alumnus Danny L Harle, Lipa’s comeback is insistent, opulent disco with another indelible lyrical concept

The Guardian - UK

The dream team? Dua Lipa’s new single Houdini features Tame Impala, PC Music alumnus Danny L Harle, Adele collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr and Dance The Night co-writer Caroline Ailin

The dream team? Dua Lipa’s new single Houdini features Tame Impala, PC Music alumnus Danny L Harle, Adele collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr and Dance The Night co-writer Caroline Ailin

If the song is at least some of the sum of its parts, it should be pretty good…

Dua Lipa fans declare comeback track ‘Houdini’ the ‘song of the decade’ before they’ve even heard it

Dua Lipa fans declare comeback track ‘Houdini’ the ‘song of the decade’ before they’ve even heard it

Lipa has teamed up with Tame Impala for new track ‘Houdini’

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Caroline Polachek review – a heady, howling triumph

Defiant oddness meets fashion-forward appeal as this febrile US powerhouse launches her lush new album channelling female pleasure and multiple styles

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