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Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
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Megson
con-tra-dic-shun
(edj records)
5*
THIS offering from husband-and-wife duo Debs and Stu Hanna is irresistible, with impressive vocal harmonies and intriguing, intelligent lyrics accompanied by inventive, restrained instrumentation.
The gently flowing The New Girl is a movingly poetic and edifying story about the Irish immigration to Teeside in 1829 — a clear reference to the migrations of today — and their setting to music of John Bell’s 1810 insurrectionary words about “rotten boroughs, the source of our sorrows” on Voice of the Nation is a rousing hymn to participatory democracy.
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