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Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

Recensione di kirk781

An iconic anti war novel with some weird time travel bits ensconced within it. Sometimes, especially in the first half, I found the novel tedious in some parts but it soon opens up. The author alludes openly to war and philosophy even from the aliens...

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Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison

Recensione di Chris Jones

Now known more for his fearsome reputation as a curmudgeonly r&b; shouter in a hat, at one point in the dim and distant past, Van Morrison was, well... a happy curmudgeon. In the early '70s his magnificent voice and mystic vision were wedded to an id...

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Kamaal the Abstract by Q‐Tip

Recensione di Stevie Chick

That Q-Tip spent his own money to purchase the rights to this previously-shelved album suggests how close it is to his heart. That it took the name he chose when converting to Islam in the mid-90s, Kamaal, as its title suggested that this follow-up t...

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Karthik Calling Karthik by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Recensione di Jaspreet Pandohar

There's no stopping the music machine that is Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendosa. Having started 2010 on a high with the soundtrack to My Name is Khan, the trio hit the rights notes once again with Karthik Calling Karthik. Fresh and fu...

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Mirrored by Battles

Recensione di P J Lucas

It's long been my conviction that writing about music is one of the most widespread follies of modern times. Each month, hundreds of thousands of words about music are written by people wearing converse trainers. What does it mean? Why bother descri...

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Westwood: The Jump Off by Various Artists

Recensione di sound.and.vision

Let me get this off my chest first of all, Tim Westwood is a twat. Tim Westwood, or just Westwood, was BBC's "main man" for the world of hip-hop and reggae in the early 2000s; it wouldn't be until 2002 that they would properly embrace this side of mu...