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Something Rotten in the State of Sweden: Swedish Musicians on the Fight Against the Far-Right
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (580+ words) Ahead of this weekend’s pivotal election that could see Sweden slip even further to the right, Alan Pedder talks to the artists speaking out about a country on the edge, and rounds up five essential tracks More on Året Var…...
An English Western: The BBC's Gangsters turns 50
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (716+ words) Khan (Ahmed Khalil): “When were you in Ireland?” Kline (Maurice Colbourne): “About 700 killings ago.” Grotesquerie proliferates like that canal algae. We hear a stooge with a buzzing mechanical voice box and the manic cackle of the demented villain Kuldip. Kline…...
No Longer Lost: David Sylvian's Gone to Earth at 40
1+ week, 6+ day ago (702+ words) Both soothing and unsettling, David Sylvian's much-overlooked second solo album is as much a forerunner of post rock as more celebrated work by Talk Talk, argues Toby Manning, as he returns to the album four decades on Toby Manning’s Mixing…...
Get Back to your Tenements! The Modern Relevance of Nuts In May
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (457+ words) Adelle Stripe pitches up to revisits Mike Leigh's 1976 cult classic, chewing 72 times to realise that she might have more in common with Keith and Candice-Marie Pratt than she previously cared to admit The 50th anniversary edition of Nuts in May is…...