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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Music: Daughter
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
Leeds Beckett University
Over the course of two albums, including the recently released Not To Disappear, Daughter have carved out a niche of musical navel-gazing and such lyrical vulnerability brings out the audience’s maternal instinct towards front-woman Elena Tonra.
There’s a virtual group hug from the crowd every time she awkwardly addresses it in a whisper and collective coos of reassurance when she sadly sighs: “Let the water rise/Let the ground crack/Let me fall inside,” over post-shoegaze guitars on Shallows.
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