Alexandra Burke The Truth Is (deluxe)

Despite being among the most statistically successful X Factor winners, in many ways, Alexandra Burke’s career has never really got off the ground. Burke has spent the decade since her talent-show triumph creatively confused (she admitted disliking Hallelujah, the Leonard Cohen song she covered as her winner’s single, and the track with which she is most commonly associated, while her subsequent output has featured some unduly painful dance-pop) and mired in record label woe. This state of affairs has delayed her third album by five years. Now, however, a fresh deal means the singer is taking a break from her other job as a musical theatre leading lady (and a dancer – she got to last year’s Strictly Come Dancing final) and having another stab at pop stardom.

"Closer to the Truth" is the twenty-sixth solo studio album by American singer-actress, Cher. Released in September 2013, it is her first record since "Living Proof" nearly 12 years earlier. This marks the longest gap in Cher's six-decade album release history. The album includes songwriting from Timbaland and P!nk, plus performances by the latter as well as the Scissor Sisters and Jake Shears.

"Closer to the Truth" is the twenty-sixth solo studio album by American singer-actress, Cher. Released in September 2013, it is her first record since "Living Proof" nearly 12 years earlier. This marks the longest gap in Cher's six-decade album release history. The album includes songwriting from Timbaland and P!nk, plus performances by the latter as well as the Scissor Sisters and Jake Shears.

"Closer to the Truth" is the twenty-sixth solo studio album by American singer-actress, Cher. Released in September 2013, it is her first record since "Living Proof" nearly 12 years earlier. This marks the longest gap in Cher's six-decade album release history. The album includes songwriting from Timbaland and P!nk, plus performances by the latter as well as the Scissor Sisters and Jake Shears.

This is some of the music composed for the Laserium, a sound to light extravagance that I have been working on over the last year. The Laserium is a method of using sound to drive lasers that are refracted or reflected to corresponding individual voices in the music. It's all very psychedelic but without a drug. Very strange.

This is some of the music composed for the Laserium, a sound to light extravagance that I have been working on over the last year. The Laserium is a method of using sound to drive lasers that are refracted or reflected to corresponding individual voices in the music. It's all very psychedelic but without a drug. Very strange.

This is some of the music composed for the Laserium, a sound to light extravagance that I have been working on over the last year. The Laserium is a method of using sound to drive lasers that are refracted or reflected to corresponding individual voices in the music. It's all very psychedelic but without a drug. Very strange.

In a world narrative dominated and controlled by powerful, wealthy individuals with vested interests in skewing the truth, what trust can be placed in our governments, our leaders and our sources of information to guide us to evolve as a species?

The third studio long-player from the Connecticut-based indie/emo rock troupe, "Always Foreign" finds the World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die nixing the mostly positive vibes of their two prior outings in favor of a deep dive into miseries both internal and external.