Skip to content
HeyJared

Shaad D'souza

Reporter

Indexed articles, last 90 days
7
Latest publication
Sep 25, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Guardian UK
Top 1K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 9, 2026

Latest articles

  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Shaad D'Souza

    Jae Stephens: Audacity review – a thrilling lesson in why more debut albums should go for broke (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone · English

    Read excerpt

    (Def Jam)After five EPs in in seven years, the Dallas native with the big voice pours everything into this bonkers cauldron of maximalist R&B and hyperactive pop There is so, so much happening on Jae Stephens’ debut album Audacity. Thankfully, it seems like mess is her medium. Although the 29-year-old Dallas native is often sold as a big voice – and she undoubtedly does have a big voice – her debut album has more in common with hyperactive, magnetic records such as PinkPantheress’s Fancy

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Shaad D'Souza

    ‘I’m an ever-changing vessel’: Erykah Badu on defying definition, life as a birth and death doula and her first album in 11 years (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Why do the Texan innovator’s records take so long to make? ‘It’s important to gather the data,’ she says: the death, dating and dopamine behind her exquisite comeback alongside the Alchemist Erykah Badu needs the lights down low. The singer, producer, actor and registered doula shuffles into a private room at London’s Soho hotel and quietly asks for some changes to the atmosphere: lights dimmed, soft seat. A green juice would be great. As it turns out, Badu was out last night with Dave

  3. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Shaad D'Souza

    Brandon Flowers: Thrasher review – Killers frontman’s country pivot is a rootin’ tootin’ cowboy-bootin’ hoot! (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    (Island)Even a couple of bafflingly misguided social commentary songs can’t detract from the joys of Flowers’ classically full-throated commitment to the Nashville bit Here are three immutable facts about Brandon Richard Flowers: he was born just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He is 45 years old. And he never does anything by halves. When he and his band the Killers debuted in the early 2000s, as disaffected New York cool was on the rise, he was writing scream-along choruses sung in his upper re

  4. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Shaad D'Souza

    Arca: XXXXX review – a wild, brilliant album that taps into our bodies’ most feral frequencies (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    (XL)In the follow-up to her Kick series, Arca jumbles the building blocks of electronic music to create a beautiful, disorienting sound world XXXXX, the new album by Venezuelan producer-vocalist Arca, is reportedly laden with meaning: a press release claims that “suspended between posthuman augmentation and raw emotion, XXXXX exposes the mainframe”. But the reason Arca, real name Alejandra Ghersi, has become such a star of electronic music – and a mainstream-adjacent one at that – is not

  5. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Shaad D'Souza

    The Strokes: Reality Awaits review – a perfect marriage of mayhem and melody on their best album in years (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone · English

    Read excerpt

    (RCA/Cult)Allying the crackpot strangeness of Julian Casablancas’ side projects with his band’s gift for pop minimalism, the New Yorkers are on playful, joyous form Here’s a sentence no old-head Strokes fan wants to hear: to understand Reality Awaits, the stalwart NYC group’s seventh album and first in six years, you first have to understand the Voidz. Julian Casablancas’s other band has been taking up more and more of his time in recent years, much to the chagrin of fans who may have

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 1K sites

For Guardian UK, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Shaad D'souza