Review
Strawberry Mansion‘s biggest asset is that it employs so many different artistic techniques to create a world as wildly inventive as it is heart-achingly sincere.
Regardless of what’s to come, Ants From Up There represents a dizzying creative apex for Black Country, New Road.
Both experimental and welcoming, the double album proves more spontaneous in feel and expansive in style than past Big Thief outings.
It has been a long time since I last felt this passionately about a new artist as I do about The Beths.
Despite its flaws, Dreaming Zenzile reflects, with power, on the difficult relationship between art and activism.
This is an album that’s at once musically significant but, more than that, thoroughly enjoyable. How tragic that, largely on account of her race and gender, Florence Price’s music was almost erased.
Pianist Billy Lester is an amusingly dry fellow who is also a deeply serious, idiosyncratic musician.
It’s no exaggeration to say that some of the men and women who embraced writing while they were in prison and whose work is featured in this book were writing for their lives.
Is it possible that adventurous readers have a better feel for the virtues of this zany, demanding satire than fuddy-duddy critics?
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