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Beans On Toast
The Inevitable Train Wreck
(Bot Music)
★★★★
FOR the past decade, the admirably warm and open-hearted performer Beans On Toast has maintained the tradition of releasing a new album each year on his December 1 birthday.
2019 thankfully didn’t represent any exception to the rule and the artist formerly known as Jay McAllister continues to muse on contemporary politics and the vagaries of the human condition via his alter ego of Beans on Toast, drawing inspiration from such unlikely bedfellows as Chuck Berry and Greta Thunberg to spark his creativity.
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