MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
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Video Games Monitor with Scott Alsworth: January 3, 2023
When the best of intentions pave the road to boredom
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ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
Night in the Woods
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NIGHT in the Woods is one of those games that seems to insist the world’s gone mad.
Not because you find yourself in the shoes of a pansexual cat with spaghetti legs who pokes severed arms with sticks for fun. And not because non-anthropomorphic animals aren’t triggering an existential crisis (Mr Wharton the pigeon is apparently quite unfazed by ordinary pigeons on the street).
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