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Album reviews with Mik Sabiers: April 19, 2022
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Tears For Fears
The Tipping Point
(Concord)
★★★★
SYNTH pop rock stalwarts Tears for Fears’ seventh studio album has been a long time coming — 18 years to be precise — and it is a welcome return.
Songs range from heartbreak — title track The Tipping Point is about the death of joint singer/guitarist and chief songwriter Roland Orzabal’s first wife — to smashing the patriarchy; Break The Man is about a woman taking control and making the world a better place.
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