ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
Album reviews by Kevin Bryan, Ben Lunn and Chris Searle
New releases from Beans on Toast, Martin Suckling, Aki Takase/Christian Weber/Michael Griener, Bobby Allison and Gerry Spehar, Kristina Arakelya/Anna Disley-Simpson/Alexander Ho/Derri Joseph Lewis, Will Glaser/Matthew Herd/Liam Noble, Linda Moylan, Klein, Eyolf Dale
Linda Moylan
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KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a minimalist installation that prompts intriguing connotations
FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
LEO BOIX reviews two powerful Latin American novels in which myth and crime fiction expose the deadly consequences of patriarchy, clandestine abortion and state violence
New releases from Laura Veirs, The Waterboys, and Yard Act
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Beans on Toast
Survival of the Friendiiest
(Self Released)
★★★★
NEW albums from Jay McAllister’s affectingly uplifting alter ego appear on the market each December with the reguarity of clockwork to comfort his fans as winter approaches, and I’m pleased to be able to report that the great man’s latest long-playing extravaganza is a particularly warm and life-enhancing piece of work.
Survival of the Friendliest finds McAllister taking such obvious delight in the joy of simply being alive that you can’t help but succumb to the appeal of his unashamedly optimistic worldview.
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