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Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: April 6, 2025
New releases from Ibex Band, Lucy Dacus, and Various Artists
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
Ibex Band
Stereo Instrumental Music
(Muzikawi)
★★★★
RELEASED by Paris-based record label Buda Musique between 1998 and 2017, the Ethiopiques album series did a great job of making the wider world aware of Ethiopia’s rich musical culture, especially ethno-jazz artists of the 1960s and 1970s.
However, they never released this fabulous 1976 record Stereo Instrumental Music — it’s only just been rediscovered.
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