Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: November 19, 2020
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
Matt Berninger
Serpentine Prison
(Book Records)
★★★★
HAVING fronted the critically acclaimed US indie rock outfit The National for over two decades, Serpentine Prison is Ohio-born Matt Berninger’s first solo album.
“I'd say I have average Midwestern white man's depression, no more or less,” he recently told Uncut magazine. This fits with his previous work and his new songs, the confessional lyrics of the latter often seeming to revolve around the protagonist going through some kind of personal crisis.
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