CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a new book that makes working class history come alive in a true story of human flesh and aspiration
Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: November 1, 2024
New releases from The Clearwater Swimmers, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Andrew Tuttle and Michael Chapman
GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a contemporary update of a problem play that raises more questions than it answers
New releases from Alice Di Micele, Tim Grimm, and Tereza Catarov
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by the stylistic muddle that arises when you apply a pub theatre sensibility to a towering Greek tragedy
ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
ALEX HALL is frustrated by a book that ducks a clear definition of terrorism and fails to perceive the role of the state in sponsoring it
The Clearwater Swimmers
The Clearwater Swimmers
(New Martian Records)
★★★★
RECORDED over just three days with producer Bradford Krieger, the self-titled debut album from The Clearwater Swimmers is a notable entrance into the world.
Lead singer Sumner Bright’s melancholic vocals combined with the New York four-piece’s unhurried Americana brings to mind much-loved US indie artists like Mark Kozelek’s Red House Painters, Beachwood Sparks and Friendship.
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