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Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: September 18, 2018
The Time For Peace Is Now by Various artists, Ode To Joy by Wilco and Last Cigarette by Angelina

Various Artists
The Time For Peace Is Now
(Luaka Bop)
★★★★

HAVING previously released a collection of Alice Coltrane’s transcendent spiritual music, the David Byrne-founded Luaka Bop provide another public service with The Time For Peace Is Now, a set of obscure 1970s gospel tracks from the American South.

Created at the junction between church and street, there is a real warmth and passion to the music, with “lyrics less about Jesus and more about justice,” according to the liner notes.

Wilco
Ode To Joy
(dBpm)
★★★★

Angelina
Last Cigarette
(Wonderful Sound)
★★★

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