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Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair
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CHRIS SEARLE wallows in an evening of high class improvised jazz, and recommends upcoming highlights in May
MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho
FIONA O’CONNOR steps warily through a novel that skewers many of the exposed flanks of the over-privileged
MARY CONWAY applauds the study of a dysfunctional family set in an Ireland that could be anywhere
MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
SAVAK
Rotting Teeth in the Horse’s Mouth
(Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
★★★★
THE FOURTH album by SAVAK – the band named after the CIA-backed Iranian secret police during the Shah’s rule – is an energising hit of politically charged punk rock.
A supergroup of sorts, its members all come from other US indie bands – drummer Matt Schulz is from Holy Fuck and co-frontmen Michael Jaworski and Sohrab Habibion from The Cops and the Obits, respectively.
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