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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
Friendship
Love The Stranger
(Merge)
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HAVING recorded three albums on tiny independent record labels, Philadelphia indie four-piece Friendship make their major independent label debut with Love The Stranger.
Playing unhurried lo-fi Americana, the band have created a downbeat masterwork in the same vein as classic 90s records from Joe Pernice’s Scud Mountain Boys and David Berman’s Silver Jews.
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