Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
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5*
THIS offering from husband-and-wife duo Debs and Stu Hanna is irresistible, with impressive vocal harmonies and intriguing, intelligent lyrics accompanied by inventive, restrained instrumentation.
The gently flowing The New Girl is a movingly poetic and edifying story about the Irish immigration to Teeside in 1829 — a clear reference to the migrations of today — and their setting to music of John Bell’s 1810 insurrectionary words about “rotten boroughs, the source of our sorrows” on Voice of the Nation is a rousing hymn to participatory democracy.
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