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Album Review: What Have We Become by Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott
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Reunited after 15 years, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott have come up with the outstanding new album What Have We Become.
It’s the result of singer Abbott finally returning from teaching, parenting and a stint at Age Concern to assist Heaton’s ageless musical gripes, observations and emotional Molotov cocktails over the finishing line once more.
And, for the first time in over a decade, Heaton finds himself with a top-10 album as seditious and delicious as anything he’s written before.
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