MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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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)
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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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