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God Is Blue. L’Aventura
contains more of Tellier’s
traditionally upbeat fayre
of three or so albums ago,
albeit tinged with wacky
animal soundbites. Ricky
L’adolescent tells the
story of his misspent youth experimenting with
narcotics, while elsewhere Jean-Michel Jarre
and Cassius’s Philippe Zdar wade in with similar
expertise on French experimentalism. RH

SHOW OF HANDS ***
Centenary: Words And Music Of The Great
War (Mighty Village)
A two-disc set of poems
and songs about the
Great War. That’s right
– nearly two hours of
words and songs about
mechanised slaughter.
It’s safe to say that it’s
not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. Show of
Hands are very good at the sort of earnest folk
which they do, and the songs themselves are
clearly heartfelt, but I can’t help but wonder who
the target audience for this is. It’s very worthy;
take that how you will. DG

STEPHEN WHEEL ***
Cassette Records (Chasing Magpies)
This is a bit of a mixed
bag, veering from the
hard rocking of opene