Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: November 1, 2024
New releases from The Clearwater Swimmers, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Andrew Tuttle and Michael Chapman
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
The Clearwater Swimmers
The Clearwater Swimmers
(New Martian Records)
★★★★
RECORDED over just three days with producer Bradford Krieger, the self-titled debut album from The Clearwater Swimmers is a notable entrance into the world.
Lead singer Sumner Bright’s melancholic vocals combined with the New York four-piece’s unhurried Americana brings to mind much-loved US indie artists like Mark Kozelek’s Red House Painters, Beachwood Sparks and Friendship.
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