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The Lost Arc by The Achievers
A dazzling novel, and autobiographical fiction, by Mexicans Brenda Navarro and Cristina Rivera Garza, and poetry by Brazilian Ricardo Domeneck
JONATHAN TAYLOR ponders the difference between autobiography and memoir - between life and story - in Margaret Atwood’s account of herself
Rereleases from Andrew Gold; John McFee, Stu Cook, Keith Knudsen; and The Outer Limits
Five years ago a flash crowd of Glaswegian activists defeated the Home Office and the police; MATT KERR urges you to savour that day in a cinema
SYLVIA HIKINS celebrates the chance that a new memoir offers to explore Frieda Brewster’s remarkable life story
The Achievers
The Lost Arc
(Freehouse Records)
THE ACHIEVERS’ life-enhancing approach to music-making draws on elements of gospel, blues, Americana and Southern Soul to create a heady hybrid.
Those innovative charms illuminate this eagerly anticipated follow-up to the Stroud band’s highly regarded 2018 debut Live at the SVA, with the vast majority of the tracks recorded live in the studio over a couple of days earlier this year in an attempt to recapture the spontaneity of this fine outfit’s rabble-rousing live act.
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