WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Album reviews
Latest releases from H.C. McEntire, The Flaming Lips and David Ian Roberts
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
H.C. McEntire
Eno Axis
(Merge)
★★★
HAVING announced her arrival as a solo artist with her superb 2018 debut album Lionheart, singer-songwriter HC McEntirereturns with her second record.
Emerging out of some downtime at a 100-year old farmhouse in the woods near Durham, North Carolina, Eno Axis has a pleasing old time, if not timeless, feel to it.
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