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Music reviews: Suede, Stefano Bollani, Cash Savage, Erica Brhaman and more

Music reviews: Suede, Stefano Bollani, Cash Savage, Erica Brhaman and more

Erica Bramham's Songs From a Midnight Room, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks' Good Citizens, Suede's The Blue Hour, Stuart Skelton's Shining Knight, Stefano Bollani's Que Boom, Alba Griot Ensemble's The Darkness Between the Leaves

  • by Barry Divola, Bruce Elder, John Shand, Annie Toller and Barney Zwartz

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