PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
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Music: Daughter
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
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Over the course of two albums, including the recently released Not To Disappear, Daughter have carved out a niche of musical navel-gazing and such lyrical vulnerability brings out the audience’s maternal instinct towards front-woman Elena Tonra.
There’s a virtual group hug from the crowd every time she awkwardly addresses it in a whisper and collective coos of reassurance when she sadly sighs: “Let the water rise/Let the ground crack/Let me fall inside,” over post-shoegaze guitars on Shallows.
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