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Kitty Empire

Kitty Empire is the Observer's pop critic. She has written for NME and occasionally crops up on Radio 4, 5Live, BBC 6Music, and has appeared on BBC2's The Culture Show and Newsnight Review. @kittyempire666

February 2025

  • Kehlani performs at the O2 Arena, London. 29/1/25

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Kehlani review – R&B tonic is just what the doctor ordered

    The US singer might have needed medical attention and a little audience help to get them through, but the star’s charisma and candid material carried the day

January 2025

  • Will Oldham, AKA Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.

    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: The Purple Bird review – Will Oldham goes country, but darkly

  • Floating Points perform at the Outernet venue in Central London. 22/1/25

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Floating Points review – an unclassifiable triumph

  • FKA twigs looking to camera, wearing big earrings and sleeveless, high-necked black PVC dress

    FKA twigs: Eusexua review – a hymn to the healing power of the dancefloor

  • Ex-Void: In Love Again

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    Ex-Vöid: In Love Again review – all of indie rock is here

  • Mac Miller: Balloonerism review – poignant second posthumous album

  • Children's book reviews round-up
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books

  • Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon review – hustle, energy and smut aplenty

  • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    The Jesus Lizard review – US rockers relive past glories, with added phlegm

  • 2025 culture preview
    From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

December 2024

  • JPEGMAFIA in a white stetson, standing above a crowd of fans

    Observer critics' review of 2024
    Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2024

  • Clockwise from Top Left Gisele Pelicot; ; Charli XCX; Jilly Cooper; B-Girl Raygun; Simone Biles; baby hippo Moo Deng: Nigel Farage

    From Charli to Jilly to Moo Deng the hippo: the faces we won’t forget from 2024

  • Paul McCartney, one arm raised, with his guitar on stage at The O2 Arena, London DECEMBER 18 2024

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Paul McCartney review – a dizzying, bittersweet, life-encompassing journey through time

  • Mr Santa by Jarvis; I Follow the Fox by Rob Biddulph; Weirdo Goes Wild by Zadie Smith, Nick Laird; The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival; Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dasnes

    2024 in Culture
    The best children’s and YA books of 2024

  • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    TV on the Radio review – US indie rockers roll back the years

  • Angel Olsen: Cosmic Waves Vol 1 review – intriguing half compilation, half covers

November 2024

  • David Pajo, AKA Papa M, in a white shirt and checked jacket, holding an electric guitar vertically

    Papa M: Ballads of Harry Houdini review – committed to evolution

  • Kendrick Lamar in a black and white photo, crouching in front of a car

    Kendrick Lamar: GNX review – amply backed-up grandstanding

  • MF Doom performs at the Pitchfork music festival at Union Park in Chicago in 2009.

    The Chronicles of Doom review – unmasking hip-hop’s peerless prankster

  • MJ Lenderman on stage in London.

    Artist of the week
    MJ Lenderman review – a shooting star from the American south

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