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Guardian music critic. Author of The Fallen and The Last Champions. Yorkshire. bsky.app/profile/davesimps0n.bsky.social
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Random ramblings on music and movies

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By Dave Simpson Verified
| wordpress.com
He-Man is back on the big screen for the first time in four decades in a delightfully light-hearted tale that sees Adam of Eternia set off on an epic quest to save his people from the oppression of the evil Skeletor, with a lot of fun arising as his mission unfolds.
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‘We were in danger of running it into the ground’: Brittany Howard on fleeing fame, fighting Trump and the epic return of Alabama Shakes

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By Dave Simpson Verified
| Yahoo Canada Verified
In the autumn of 2024, Alabama Shakes showed no sign of ending their indefinite hiatus – and nobody was asking them to. Seven years had passed since the blues-soul-rock band, who exploded out of Athens, Alabama in 2009, had last shared a stage. Their transatlantic Top 10 2012 debut Boys & Girls announced them; the million-selling 2015 follow-up Sound & Color went to No 1 in the US and won them four Grammys. Their fanbase included Bruce Springsteen, Robert Plant and Barack Obama.
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Loathe: A Stranger to You review – metalcore masters offer stylistic swerves and surprising beauty

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By Dave Simpson Verified
| Yahoo Canada Verified
Loathe took six years to make this fourth album, explaining they wanted to make it very special. Accordingly, A Stranger to You ventures far from the Liverpudlians' metalcore origins to create an odyssey of mixed and colliding genres. Punishing riffola and slabs of industrial noise coexist with balm-like electronics, acoustic guitars, shoegaze, tinkling jazz pianos and guest rapper Bucki Sugar's spoken-word narratives ("ever forward, forever motion").
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