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Justin Mitchell: The Garden of Earthly Delights
Off-the-wall delights in this 'bemused meditation on mortality'
LIFE AFFIRMING: Justin Mitchell
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JUSTIN MITCHELL’S first solo album The Garden Of Earthly Delights is lovely — funny, quirky, jazzy, funky, surreal and avant-garde, like the soundtrack to a drive-in sci-fi zombie movie set in a haunted fairground. And that’s just one of the tracks.
The title is a reference to the Hieronymous Bosch painting, with Eden on one side, Hell on the other. The
garden is where we all are now and, more than anything, multi-instrumentalist Mitchell’s album is a bemused meditation on mortality.
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