MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
Albums with Ian Sinclair
DAMN GOOD: Bob Dylan
MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho
FIONA O’CONNOR steps warily through a novel that skewers many of the exposed flanks of the over-privileged
MARY CONWAY applauds the study of a dysfunctional family set in an Ireland that could be anywhere
MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott
ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
RELEASED online in March, Bob Dylan’s 17-minute Murder Most Foul felt, in some strange way, in close step with our difficult times.
Ostensibly about the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy, the monumental song ominously unspools like a slow-paced American Pie, with the now 79-year old mesmerisingly listing popular 20th-century artists and hit songs.
This extraordinary track closes his new album Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia), which was pretty damn good too. Perhaps rejuvenated by his previous five records of American standards, highlights include I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You and the nine-minute Key West (Philosopher Pirate).
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