Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with Simon Duff: August 9, 2020
Latest releases from Pinch, Metrik and Víkingur Olafsson
Album reviews
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
Pinch
Reality Tunnels
(Tectonic Recordings)
★★★★
UNDERWATER Dancehall, the debut album by Bristol producer Rob Ellis — Pinch — was a milestone for dubstep in 2007 and Reality Tunnels is his second, recorded at his Logic-based Bristol studio.
The album’s concept is inspired by US writer Robert Anton Wilson’s 1983 book Prometheus Rising, relating to how individuals create their own perspective and the subjective filters they apply to their world.
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