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Music: Album review - Son Lux
IAN SINCLAIR reviews Lanterns
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
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MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Son Lux
Lanterns
(Joyful Noise Recordings)
Four stars
That Ryan Lott is in a band with indie maestro Sufjan Stevens signposts what to expect of the third album from Son Lux, the former's stage moniker.
Like Stevens's most outlandish work, Lanterns is a huge, experimental record full of big ideas and brilliant colours.
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