GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: August 18, 2020
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Jayhawks
XOXO
(Thirty Tigers)
★★★★
THOUGH they have never received as much attention as artists like Ryan Adams and Wilco, The Jayhawks are very much altcountry survivors, having released their debut album nearly 35 years ago.
On their 11th studio record, the Minneapolis band have made an impressive and rejuvenating shift away from their usual formula of frontman Gary Louris dominating the songwriting and singing duties.
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