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San Francisco’s ever-shifting tech metallers get into their flow
Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.
From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS
Glasgow O2 Academy
My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow
Featuring tributes to curry and fantasy battles involving… rats?! here are all the records our critics loved this year
Works by Saariaho and Shostakovich Dudok Quartet Amsterdam Rubicon RCD1218 59:41 mins Carrying a dedication to ‘those who have departed’, Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria for string quartet, composed in