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• William Orbit: The Painter – welcome return of the classy dance master

  28-08-2022 16:00
  (Warner)
  Orbit’s glory years may be behind him, but the one-time superproducer’s latest album still offers smooth, ambient grandeurIt’s good to have William Orbit back. After a brief and unrewarding dabble with drug addiction, the veteran English musician had a comeback of sorts with 2021’s patchy Starbeam EP, but The Painter is a more satisfying return. Orbit’s definitive work is surely All Saints’ Pure Shores, where sleek, subliminal layers of electronic eff
  
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• Reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff: ‘In England we had to fight to get any kind of recognition’

  28-08-2022 15:00
  The musician on his early struggles in London, the enduring appeal of his song Many Rivers to Cross, auditioning Bob Marley, and the problem with Jamaican independenceOne of the great pioneers of reggae, Jimmy Cliff was born in Jamaica in 1944 as James Chambers, and started writing songs while in primary school. He moved to Kingston as a teenager to pursue music and had his first hit at 14 with Hurricane Hattie. After stints in New York and London he returned to Jamaica and played the lead role
  
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• Muse: Will of the People review – powerful angst undermined by bombast

  28-08-2022 14:00
  (Warner)
  Amid an OTT blizzard of musical styles, the English rockers meet doom head on, from the climate crisis to Liz TrussMuse’s Matt Bellamy has been writing songs about a dystopian near-future for years, so it seemed strange when, well into the age of Trump and Brexit, he reined in his lyrical excesses for 2018’s Simulation Theory. He has rediscovered his paranoid mojo for the band’s ninth album – and how… Will of the People confronts variously the rise of popu
  
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• Julia Jacklin: Pre Pleasure review – more disarming introspection

  28-08-2022 10:00
  (Transgressive)
  The Australian singer-songwriter presides between confessional and observational on her arresting third albumJulia Jacklin is a confessional singer-songwriter, with all the trouble that brings: the need to produce pain on schedule; the compromised boundaries. But this wry, canny Australian shrugs at these tropes and keeps mining her life for discomfort on her assured third album, Pre Pleasure. It’s a record about the impossibility of communication, and never quite solving y
  
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• Tea with Ozzy Osbourne: ‘I’ve sung that song for 55 years. I’m not going to forget the words’

  28-08-2022 09:00
  When he stole the show at the Commonwealth Games, fans were delighted to see the Prince of Darkness back. Here, Ozzy Osbourne pours out his soul about overcoming illness, coming home – and why he owes it all to SharonBirmingham’s Commonwealth Games closing ceremony on 8 August was a starry night showcasing the city’s rich musical legacy. The Peaky Blinders-themed song and dance number and the dandified return of Dexy’s Midnight Runners singing Geno; the athletes’ fl
  
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