STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Best of 2018: Albums
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
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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