There's both delights and disappointments this week, as Martin, Sam and Jeu Jeu la Foille find a disappointingly straightforward Brawler with LowDown, a delightful and layered Bawler in You Can Never Hold Back Spring, and a creepy story guaranteed to disturb the little Bastards in your life.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
LowDown, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
You Can Never Hold Back Spring, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Extract from 'La Tigre e la Neve', dir. Roberto Benigni (2005)
Waters of March, Breakaway, Art Garfunkel, as used in The Worst Person In The World, dir. Joachim Trier (1975/2021)
Children's Story, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Rodney la Foille performs 'Children's Story' by Tom Waits, courtesy of Victoria Hancock (2006/2016)
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