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Guido Farnell, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
"[T]he menace of apocalypse... hangs heavy in the background."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Moon Duo, SaD
"As the light show gets more frenetic the screens turn into a flickering rainbow of abstract colour."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Ásgeir - Bury The Moon
"[A]nother accomplished album."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Wafia, Banoffee, MAY-A
"Wafia has come a very long way in a relatively short period of time."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
"Deacon's fecund imagination [...] takes us to strange and weird destinations of unimaginable beauty."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Navarasa: Nine Emotions
"Yorkston/Thorne/Khan at once celebrate the differences between their respective backgrounds and the universality of these nine emotions."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Holly Herndon, Sui Zhen
"Herndon quite masterfully stitches the past, present and the future into a seamless, wondrous whole."
Features / Music
The Music 2019 Writers' Poll: Guido Farnell
Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2019…
Reviews / Album
Album Review: St Vincent - Nina Kraviz Presents... Masseduction Rewired
"This is 'Masseduction' as it might have been released in an alternative universe."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Various - Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits
"These songs tug at the heartstrings."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Dissolution
"This album sees Kalevi get his freak on."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Gang Of Four, Horace Bones
"[T]his incarnation of the band play hard and tight."
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