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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
Taylor Swift
folklore
(Republic)
★★★★
RELEASED with no advance promotion but shifting 1.3 million copies on its first day of release, folklore is the surprise eighth album from Taylor Swift that delivers a stripped-down and different musical take on her usual upbeat confessional electropop.
Marking a shift from her more mainstream back catalogue, folklore primarily pares everything back to guitar, piano and vocals but it’s all in the lyrics that blur reality and fantasy over an almost indie-folk sound.
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