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Triumph of Affliction
The Amity Affliction at the O2 Academy, London N1
GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience
DAVID RABY welcomes a biography that emphasises how Fidel’s unique characteristics became hallmarks of the ongoing Cuban revolutionary process
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a readable, if partisan, account of the astonishing campaign of New York's new mayor
MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence
by Marwa Paikan
4/5
Littered with a debris of noise from the battle between love, unity, fear and self-loathing, The Amity Affliction offers a hard-hitting tussle between psychotic noise, hope and defiant screams of rage.
Singer Joel Birch’s lyrics — including an angst-ridden account of his near-death experience — are ripped from the gaping wounds of a soul laid bare.
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