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Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: September 18, 2018
The Time For Peace Is Now by Various artists, Ode To Joy by Wilco and Last Cigarette by Angelina
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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The Time For Peace Is Now
(Luaka Bop)
★★★★
HAVING previously released a collection of Alice Coltrane’s transcendent spiritual music, the David Byrne-founded Luaka Bop provide another public service with The Time For Peace Is Now, a set of obscure 1970s gospel tracks from the American South.
Created at the junction between church and street, there is a real warmth and passion to the music, with “lyrics less about Jesus and more about justice,” according to the liner notes.
“Why in the name of God can’t our leaders see what’s happening to humanity,” ask The Floyd Family Singers on That’s A Sign Of The Times.
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