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
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: October 11, 2021
New releases from Ducks Ltd, She Drew The Gun and Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads (Various Artists)
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
She Drew The Gun
Behave Myself
(Submarine Cat Records)
★★★★
A PROUD socialist feminist hailing from Birkenhead, on her new record Louisa Roach — She Drew The Gun — kicks up a revolutionary storm.
Over gutsy electro-pop recorded by Ross Orton (The Fall, Arctic Monkeys), she targets corruption, abuse, inequality, the patriarchy and the ruthless ruling class.
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