MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Contemporary classical album reviews with Simon Duff: September 30, 2024
New releases from The The, Memo Comma and Anna Gourari/Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
The The
Ensoulment
(Cineola/ear MUSIC)
★★★★★
THE first album in a quarter of a century from Matt Johnson’s The The is full of political and philosophical concerns.
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