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★★★★★ @NickCave and the Bad Seeds - WILD GOD – ‘Muscular emotion and mystery in redemptive big music’, says Nick Hasted, choosing his #AlbumoftheYear 2024 – with kudos to #RotemGeffen #BarefootInBryophyte Sturgill Simpson theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

★★★★ SAS: ROGUE HEROES Series 2 BBC One - Second helping of #StevenKnight's hard-rockin' #WorldWarTwo drama sees #PaddyMayne's renegade warriors invading Italy - review Adam Sweeting theartsdesk.com/tv/sas-rogue-h…

BEST OF 2024: CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS - Young and old in excelsis, and competition finales turned into winning programmes - David Nice and theartsdesk.com classical critics look back over the year’s highlights theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

Albums of the Year 2024: US singer-songwriter Mk.gee's debut Two Star and The Dream Police really hits the spot says Ibi Keita Mk.gee theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

★★★★ World-class soprano provides the wow factor in fascinating mostly-Viennese programme: Jennifer Davis, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Gavin Maloney, National Concert Hall, Dublin review by David Nice theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

Albums of the Year 2024: #TheLastDinnerParty - Prelude to Ecstasy: It's in everyone else's 'best of' lists, so why not ours too? writes Kathryn Reilly theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

★★★ Will we ever hear the full story of what happened to Pan Am Flight 103?: #LockerbieASearchForTruth SkyAtlantic - Colin Firth stars in gruelling dramatisation of the 1988 terror attack Adam Sweeting reviews theartsdesk.com/tv/lockerbie-s…

★★★★ A soulful experiment: Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winner becomes an immersive elegy to black teenage crime and punishment in Nickel Boys, Nick Hasted reviews theartsdesk.com/film/nickel-bo…

★★★ A spirited shot at Shostakovich: Liepe, National Youth Orchestra of Ireland NCH, Dublin - a symphonic epic, played with total commitment writes David Nice theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

Albums of the Year 2024: Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka - Magnificent Little Dudes Vol. 1 review by Harry Thorfinn-George theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

This collaboration between the prolific Chihei Hatakeyama and the electrifying jazz drummer Shun Ishiwaka really made an impression on me this year. Wrote about it for theartsdesk.com.

‘The epithet ‘ripe for rediscovery’ is overused, but this colourful curio really deserves your attention’ ★★★★★ THE HOP-PICKERS - A ground-breaking & colourful #Czech musical, says Graham Rickson - now on Second Run Blu-ray theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray-h…

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★★★★ An epic of American dreaming that baffles and mesmerises: #TheBrutalist reviewed by James Saynor theartsdesk.com/film/brutalist…

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