Alexis Petridis's album of the week

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  Haim: Days Are Gone – review

  4
  The Haim sisters' breezy debut album goes the full Phil Collins without a knowing smirk – and that takes chutzpah, writes Alexis Petridis
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Kitty Empire's album of the week

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  Haim: Days Are Gone – review

  4

  The California sisters' debut album show a more serious side than their kooky reputation suggests, writes Kitty Empire

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Classical CD of the week

• Best classical albums of 2012

  

  A ravishing tour of early 20th-century Brazilian piano music and the finest recording ever of The Book of the Hanging Gardens were among this year's stand-out albums

Latest pop and rock album review

• Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 – review

  3
  At its best, part two of Justin Timberlake's comeback bid is a tight, tongue-in-cheek affair, writes Hermione Hoby
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Latest classical album review

• Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D minor; Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings – review

  Fiona Maddocks applauds Tamsin Waley-Cohen's account of these spirited works by a young Felix Mendelssohn
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Latest world music album review

• Çiğdem Aslan: Mortissa – review

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  Çiğdem Aslan sings soulful songs about drugs, love and good-time girls, in the blues of the Aegean, writes Robin Denselow

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Latest folk album review

• Leyla McCalla: Vari-Colored Songs – review

  4
  Leyla McCalla sets Langston Hughes's poems to simple arrangements of banjo, guitar and cello on her charming debut, writes Neil Spencer
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Latest jazz album review

• Kate and Mike Westbrook: The Serpent Hit – review

  3
  The Westbrooks' latest genre-crossing collaboration is a meditation on the fall of man, writes Dave Gelly
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