Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Best of 2018: Albums
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
ALL That Heaven Allows from Thomas Truax (Psycho Teddy Records), inhabits the same musical territories as Giant Sand, Valparaiso, the Dresden Dolls, Post War Glamour Girls or Moriarty, where the rich veins of cabaret, chanson and punk are reconfigured to unexpectedly spectacular effect.
Truax probes at the very edge of genres, forcing a constant adjustment to a sound that is wonderfully eclectic. Hard-edged yet polyphonic, it's as melodically elaborate as it is sensitive.
A tontine was a 17th century investment scheme that expired with the death of its last member and on Spear of Destiny's Tontine (Eastersnow Recording Company), it's sparked by the lance of Longinus, the centurion and later saint, who pierced the side of the crucified Christ.
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