Strange brew

Sarah Ditum

I’M SLIGHTLY DREADING SPOTIFY doing its annual round-up of what I’ve been listening to this year. I’ve had quite an odd one for music: because I’ve been writing a book about the noughties, my choices have been — well, “niche” covers some of it, and a lot of the rest comes under the heading “problematic”. There was the week I spent listening to “Sacred Trust” on repeat while I was working on a chapter about reality TV. That pretty much guarantees I’ll be 2021’s top listener for Popstars losers One True Voice, last heard of in 2003 when they split acrimoniously after releasing two singles. (I know of someone who was identified as a top listener for a grime artist, summoned to a hotel by his PR and invited to…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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