The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Sebastian, Four Mothers, Restless, and The Most Precious of Cargoes
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Album reviews with Mik Sabiers: April 19, 2022
New releases from Tears For Fears, Blood Red Shoes, and The Mysterines
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JOHN GREEN explores the argument that psychiatry needs to move away from the idea of just seeing and treating the individual
SYLVIA HIKINS applauds a polemic against “cleanfluencers” and considers radical alternatives to current inequalities of housework
RUTH AYLETT admires the blunt honesty with which a woman’s experience is recorded, but detects the unexamined privilege that underlies it
IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
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DENNIS BROE notes what happens to content when the streaming giants incorporate AI and deregulation into their economic models
Tears For Fears
The Tipping Point
(Concord)
★★★★
SYNTH pop rock stalwarts Tears for Fears’ seventh studio album has been a long time coming — 18 years to be precise — and it is a welcome return.
Songs range from heartbreak — title track The Tipping Point is about the death of joint singer/guitarist and chief songwriter Roland Orzabal’s first wife — to smashing the patriarchy; Break The Man is about a woman taking control and making the world a better place.
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