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Album Reviews with Ian Sinclair: March 27, 2023
New albums from Ralph Towner, The Hold Steady and Algiers

Ralph Towner
At First Light
(ECM)
★★★★

 

IN THE inlay notes of his new record Ralph Towner relates how he discovered the classical guitar in the early 1960s, and was enchanted by “how it was a very pianistic instrument capable of sophisticated polyphony and myriad tone colours.”

The Hold Steady
The Price Of Progress
(Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers)
★★★

Algiers
Shook
(Matador)
★★★

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