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Music: Album review - Son Lux
IAN SINCLAIR reviews Lanterns
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
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JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Son Lux
Lanterns
(Joyful Noise Recordings)
Four stars
That Ryan Lott is in a band with indie maestro Sufjan Stevens signposts what to expect of the third album from Son Lux, the former's stage moniker.
Like Stevens's most outlandish work, Lanterns is a huge, experimental record full of big ideas and brilliant colours.
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