STEVE JOHNSON recommends a protest album with a harder edge than many in the genre
The Slow Painters
The Slow Painters
(Keepsecretrecords)
★★★
AS SOON as this Oslo-based quartet hit the first chords and the singer takes his cue, there's a sense of having been here before and enjoyed it.

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