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Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: November 19, 2020
MARY CONWAY applauds a new play that foresees the unscrupulous tactics of a future far-right minority government
RON JACOBS is moved to tears by an eloquent journal of heartfelt intensity and human portraiture
ROBERT OVETZ recommends a case study, from the University of Leicester, in their struggle against precarization, AI, privatisation, outsourcing, and work intensification in higher education
IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a lucid critique of a technology that reproduces and enables oppression, power, and environmental devastation
SIMON PARSONS applauds an impassioned demonstration of the fundamental role of women in the history and protection of the forest ecosystem
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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