GORDON PARSONS is bowled over by a skilfully stripped down and powerfully relevant production of Hamlet
Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: February 26, 2024
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In which we accompany the Bard into Cymru to meet his musical accomplices, young and old
SUE TURNER is inspired by the example of a librarian’s struggle to confront the book-banning movement
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews I Am Martin Parr, September Says, The Monkey, and The Gorge
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
Katherine Priddy
The Pendulum Swing
(Cooking Vinyl)
★★★
FOLLOWING her well received 2021 debut, English musician Katherine Priddy returns with another set of pastoral-tinged contemporary folk.
There is a noticeable maturing in the songwriting and arguably a more rounded sound too. At the same time there are few surprises, with the enchanting mid-tempo tunes and hushed vocals of her previous work still the dominant mode of transmission.
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