JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: August 9, 2020
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MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
Mike Polizze
Long Lost Solace Find
(Paradise of Bachelors)
★★★★
THE FRONTMAN of Philadelphia experimental indie-rock group Purling Hiss, Mike Polizze was encouraged to perform unaccompanied by his friends at the Paradise of Bachelors label.
Long Lost Solace Find is the outcome and it’s an assured, largely acoustic solo debut recorded slowly over the course of a year with help from his longtime friend Kurt Vile.
This is the key bit of context — the album’s stoned summer ambience echoes the sound of Vile on records like 2011’s Smoke Ring for My Halo. In fact, the mood is so laid-back it’s virtually horizontal.
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