Music
Jan 10, 2020
3 minutes
The Who
WHO
Polydor 9/10
The Who come out fighting for best long-player in years
“All this music will fade, just like the edge of a blade...” shouts Roger Daltry, with the explosive defiance that was so thrilling on . Decades later, he’s sticking two fingers up at something bigger even than The Establishment: the nature of time and change and perhaps mortality itself. “I’m not blue, I’m not pink, I’m just grey, I’m afraid,” he sings, disconsolately, setting the introspective yet angry tone for an album that represents a thundering late-career
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