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Good weird, batshit weird, brilliance a-plenty
Good weird, batshit weird, brilliance a-plenty
All the 129 tracks on Miniatures 2020 come in at less than a minute and many are magnificently memorable
SIMON PARSONS is gripped by a psychological thriller that questions the the power of the state over vulnerable individuals
KEN COCKBURN assesses the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay for the experience of warfare it incited and represents
The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
IN 1981, I was invited to join the pioneering, category-busting and extremely eclectic independent label Cherry Red Records and, once signed, was invited into the despatch department to take my pick of anything in their back catalogue.
It was thus that I got hold of a copy of Miniatures, a compilation LP put together by former Mott The Hoople keyboard player and Cherry Red collaborator Morgan Fisher, released a year before. A vast number of luminaries had contributed 51 tracks, all under a minute in length.
Some of it was great, some weird but the album was unique and memorable and therefore brilliant.
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