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Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: July 19, 2022
New releases from Tallies, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Steve Tibbetts
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Tallies
Patina
(Bella Union)
⭑⭑⭑⭑
WITH their 2019 debut warmly received by critics, it seems apt Tallies have been signed by Bella Union: label boss Simon Raymonde was a member of Scottish outfit Cocteau Twins, a key influence on the Canadian trio.
On their second album they once again crank the reverb up to the max, creating an intoxicating set of dreamy indie pop, with lead singer Sarah Cogan’s youthful, melancholic vocals the icing on the cake.
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