WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: August 9, 2020
Latest releases from Mike Polizze, Bananagun and Kathleen Edwards
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Mike Polizze
Long Lost Solace Find
(Paradise of Bachelors)
★★★★
THE FRONTMAN of Philadelphia experimental indie-rock group Purling Hiss, Mike Polizze was encouraged to perform unaccompanied by his friends at the Paradise of Bachelors label.
Long Lost Solace Find is the outcome and it’s an assured, largely acoustic solo debut recorded slowly over the course of a year with help from his longtime friend Kurt Vile.
This is the key bit of context — the album’s stoned summer ambience echoes the sound of Vile on records like 2011’s Smoke Ring for My Halo. In fact, the mood is so laid-back it’s virtually horizontal.
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