Katie Melua, “Love & Money.” Singer-songwriter Katie Melua was coming to terms with a divorce on 2020’s Album No. 8. Her latest long-player, Love & Money, finds her in a completely different place. Now with a new partner and a newborn son (she was pregnant when making the album),…

Katie Melua, “Album NO. 8.” Only two British female artists have reached the top 10 in U.K. album charts seven consecutive times. There’s Kate Bush, and then there’s Katie Melua, whose catalog has been certified 56-times-platinum around the world but remains a relative unknown in the United States. The singer-songwriter—who…

When Goldfrapp keyboardist-composer Will Gregory was 21, the Englishman left college with the notion of making his way to Los Angeles and learning jazz. The electronic musician, now 57, got in a car, and when he got back out, he was not in Los Angeles but in Berkeley. Goldfrapp…