MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Album reviews with Simon Duff: November 29, 2021
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STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
Aya
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(Hyperdub)
★★★★
AYA is one of Hyperdub’s latest signings and her debut album for the label is a heady mix of innovative, provocative poetic experimental dubstep influences combined with left field understated whispered folk.
It aims to pull the listener through tangled moments within her life that are in conversation with each other.
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