Music of the Sun: 2015’s Most Wanted Summer Albums

The clocks have sprung forward, the shorts have come out and public transport has started to smell funny – it’s clear to see that Britain’s countdown to summer is well and truly on its way. And as happens each year when we enter the season of barbeques and day-drinking, the sounds on the radio have begun to shift and the tunes that will soundtrack our memories for years to come have begun to emerge. So as the excitement builds for beer gardens and cramped Ryanair flights, let’s list the albums we are most looking forward to in the coming months, and our favourite cuts off the artists' last sets:

Black Mirror: White Christmas - A Fable for the Future

It is hard to tell whether the first feature length instalment of Charlie Brooker’s satire series is a prophecy or a lesson in allegory. With Jon Hamm leading a talented cast, we are introduced to a winter fable which appears to be set in an already familiar future, packed full of metaphors which tackle the technological revolution head on.

Why We Love Them: P!nk

With the memory of her touching tribute to Judy Garland at the 86^th Academy Awards still fresh in our minds, it seems only fair to put P!nk’s exemplary career under the spotlight this week, and recollect on how she has managed to maintain such prominence in the ever-changing pop scene.

Why We Love Them: Maroon 5

Say hello to a brand new feature: Why We Love Them! With a different act being explored each time, we remind ourselves what made us fall in love with some of music's biggest and most influential artists in the first place (with the occasional heartfelt dose of humble advice for the future)

Album Review: Lady Gaga - ARTPOP

Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP was always going to be an important album for the eccentric 27 year old. From the initial twitter photo of the tattoo revealing the album’s ambitious title, to the recent iTunes Festival performance of exclusively new material, the build-up has been long and closely observed, all the more so following the divisive (and arguably isolating) Born This Way. As pop’s premier performance artist Gaga has always been fond of grand statements, but has she risen to the challenge of putting the ART in POP or is the reverse-Warhol concept lost in the beats?