ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Late Fame, The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
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Solo splendour
In something of a vintage year, releases by two very individual artists stand out for Attila the Stockbroker
GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience
DAVID RABY welcomes a biography that emphasises how Fidel’s unique characteristics became hallmarks of the ongoing Cuban revolutionary process
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a readable, if partisan, account of the astonishing campaign of New York's new mayor
MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence
by Marwa Paikan
Loads of great debut recordings around at the moment, and my joint albums of the year are two fine examples, solo offerings from two generations inspired by punk.
Steve Drewett gained a lot of respect for his work with seminal 1980s cult punk heroes Newtown Neurotics, so in one sense his solo album Jenga Society (Cruel Binary), his first new release for 26 years, isn’t a debut album at all.
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