WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: November 19, 2020
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
Matt Berninger
Serpentine Prison
(Book Records)
★★★★
HAVING fronted the critically acclaimed US indie rock outfit The National for over two decades, Serpentine Prison is Ohio-born Matt Berninger’s first solo album.
“I'd say I have average Midwestern white man's depression, no more or less,” he recently told Uncut magazine. This fits with his previous work and his new songs, the confessional lyrics of the latter often seeming to revolve around the protagonist going through some kind of personal crisis.
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