The Critic Magazine

Strange brew

I’M SLIGHTLY DREADING SPOTIFY doing its annual round-up of what I’ve been listening to this year. I’ve had quite an odd one for music: because I’ve been writing a book about the noughties, my choices have been — well, “niche” covers some of it, and a lot of the rest comes under the heading “problematic”.

There was the week I spent listening to “Sacred Trust” on repeat while I was working on a chapter about reality TV. That pretty much guarantees I’ll be 2021’s top listener for losers One True Voice, last heard

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