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Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called

Albums
On almost every track of Jake Xerxes Fussell's fifth studio album When I'm Called, there is a stringent and plangent tone which is reminiscent of Van Morrison and the Astral Weeks closer 'Slim Slow Slider', a song about a sad departure, two trains passing in the night or drifting into the looming spectre of the vast beyond. That sort of...

Tracks of the Week 25.11.23

Tracks of the Week
Everything on this side of death was the purview of the Vita Duvan, which opened in the northern coastal city of Luleå in 1856 as Sweden's only true panopticon prison. The concept was devised in the eighteenth century by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham who envisioned the panopticon as a means of reform and rehabilitation as well as control:...