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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Triumph of Affliction
The Amity Affliction at the O2 Academy, London N1
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
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Littered with a debris of noise from the battle between love, unity, fear and self-loathing, The Amity Affliction offers a hard-hitting tussle between psychotic noise, hope and defiant screams of rage.
Singer Joel Birch’s lyrics — including an angst-ridden account of his near-death experience — are ripped from the gaping wounds of a soul laid bare.
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