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PETER MASON recommends an exhibition of album covers by the legendary Mighty Sparrow which catalogues turbulent times
MARIA DUARTE, SCOTT ALSWORTH, ANDY HEDGECOCK and ANGUS REID review The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, Time and Water, and Strictly Ballroom
STEVE JOHNSON recommends a beautiful album of songs that celebrate summer, from May Day onwards
New releases from Joe Wilkes, Honey and the Bear, and Hannah James and Toby Kuhn
Given the power of the live experience, MIK SABIERS recommends Jon Spencer’s new album
Reviews of T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Tamikrest, and Dub Colossus
Sparrow Come Back at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London SW1
4/5
THE ICA’S new Sparrow Come Back exhibition works around a novel idea, that of transforming dozens of album covers by the great calypsonian Mighty Sparrow into LP-sized ceramic tiles, arranged around two walls as if in an old-fashioned record shop.
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