ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
Latest editorial
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: March 9, 2022
New release from Trupa Trupa, Gabriel Moreno and Gilmore Trail
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
Trupa Trupa
B FLAT A
Glitterbeat
★★★★★
THE quartet from Gdansk has received much acclaim for their remarkable innovation and intelligent exploration of rock’s hinterland. TT’s mastery of instruments and groundbreaking arrangements continue to conjure spellbinding scapes.
Their minimalist, acerbic lyrics explore “the wasteland of human nature where hatred and genocide are not just distant reverberations of Central European history but still resonate in contemporary reality,” states guitarist and lead singer Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.
Similar stories
New releases from Old Spot, Chris Marksberry, and Clementine Lovell
New releases from Kneecap, Sam Blasucci, and Juni Habel
New releases from Kennedy Administration, Melanie Pain, and Afton Wolfe
New releases from Ninebarrow, Amit Dattani, and Lonan