ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
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STEVE JOHNSON is swept up by an album of powerful and timely songs that detail how Britain’s institutions benefitted from the slave trade
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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?
Reg Meuross
Stolen From God, Hatsongs Records
REG MEUROSS is a long-standing folk singer and songwriter whose work often involves social and political themes.
Stolen From God is his 15th album and is the culmination of four years research into the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade in the 17th and 18th century, particularly in the south-west of England.
The album is a song cycle telling stories of the impact of the slave trade from different perspectives and detailing the extent of how much British institutions from church to country estates benefited.
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