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The Devil You Know by Rickie Lee Jones
[[rickie-lee-jones-rev]]Rickie Lee Jones is known for her interpretive work, and here we have a new collection of covers of songs that she loves and loves to sing. The Devil You Know features intimate and relatively stark versions of the Stones’…
Over The Sun by Tinpan Orange
[[tinpan-orange]]Over recent years, Tinpan Orange have evolved from a brother-and-sister duo to a dynamic five-piece, now including Harry Angus from The Cat Empire. Over the Sun is their third album, borne from a major life change: parenthood. Emily Lubitzs’ vocals…
The Winter I Chose Happiness by Clare Bowditch
[[clare-bowditch-rev]]All at once a great woman and an excellent songwriter, Clare Bowditch has woven her personal search for happiness into an album that extracts emotions from the listener without resorting to any kind of spiritual hypnosis (I assume, anyway –…
Mirage Rock by Band Of Horses
[[band-of-horses-rev]]Band of Horses moved from Seattle to the Midwest in order to record 2007’s Cease to Begin, and the sextet’s song craft has come to reflect this geographical and social shift, with a more subdued, countrified lilt taking hold…
Lonerism by Tame Impala
[[tame-impala-rev]]These young Perth boys blew our tiny minds with their masterful 2010 debut Innerspeaker, which created quite a splash overseas and earned them rave reviews from the likes of Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller, to name but two famous…
Born To Sing: No Plan B by Morrison Van
[[van-morrison-rev]]This is Van Morrison’s 34th studio album and his first since Keep It Simple in 2008. Self-produced, the album features a six-piece band with Morrison on vocals, piano, guitar and alto-saxophone. It is essentially a jazz album with a peppering…
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
As risky as it is to return to a cherished childhood read, Charlotte Sometimes gave as much to me as an adult as it did at age 10.
The story is a combination of two things I adored as a…
Found: The Art Of Recycling by Lisa Hölzl
Looking at twentieth and twenty-first-century art through the lens of re-used materials, this intriguing release is both a lesson in art history as well as a practical guidebook to creative recycling.
Each double-page spread provides a brief biography of a…
The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann
[[stefan-bachmann-rev]]An impressive debut novel from 18 year-old Stefan Bachmann, The Peculiar draws on a number of classic stories yet is both fresh and original.
And, what’s more, bestselling authors Rick Riordan and Christopher Paolini are singing its praises.
Set in…
The Abominables by Eva Ibbotson
[[eva-ibbotson-rev]]A posthumous release from well-loved author Eva Ibbotson, The Abominables is, quite simply, perfect.
It has everything a young reader could wish for in a story: semi-mythical creatures, intrepid adventurers, daring rescues, dastardly villains, incredible bravery, gross stupidity and, of…
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