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| | | Gwenno: Tresor review – more alluring Cornish psych-pop | | by Neil Spencer Jul 3, 2022 | | (Heavenly)
The Welsh sound artist, performing almost entirely in Cornish, explores nature and motherhood on her ambitious third album Raised by a Welsh activist mother and a Cornish poet father, Gwenno Mererid Saunders has become a one-woman Celtic revival over her two previous albums, 2014’s Welsh-language Y Dydd Olaf and 2018’s all-Cornish Le Kov. Using slinky synth-pop backings, both fuse language, landscape and identity, by turns angry and playful. Tresor continues in a similar but more accomplished vein, setting layers of Gwenno’s ethereal vocals against arrangements that slip between the polished pop of Ardamm and psych-folk explorations such as Men An Toll, a soundscape for a trio of standing stones at Land’s End. As usual, Gwenno’s partner, multi-instrumentalist Rhys Edwards, remains at the production controls, but this is very much a collaborative effort. Though NYCAW (Nid yw Cymru ar Werth – Wales is Not for Sale) flies the flag for her homeland, the rest of Tresor is rendered in Cornish. While occasionally confrontational – “Where is your mother tongue?” it demands at one point – its songs are predominantly introspective and allusive, drawing on nature (Kan Me celebrates the May hawthorn) and on Gwenno’s recent entrance into motherhood. An ambitious album (it comes with an 8mm film and several quirky videos) from a unique artist. Continue reading... | | | | | The Railway Children Return review – family classic sequel stays on track | | by Peter Bradshaw Jul 3, 2022 | | Plot riffs on the original story include a black US serviceman on the lam in this earnest but likable homage to the beloved 1970 kids’ adventure Jenny Agutter became a British cinema hall-of-famer as Roberta, or Bobbie, in the much-loved 1970 family classic The Railway Children, about three children forced by circumstance to move with their mother to a cottage in Yorkshire and have adventures involving steam trains. She returned to play the mum in a 2000 TV movie version, and now Agutter is back as her original character, 40 years older, in this sparky sequel imagining a new generation of railway children in 1944, a reboot devised and co-written by producer Jemma Rodgers and directed by Morgan Matthews. Maybe it’s a bit self-conscious in the way it revives and reimagines the classic plot points, and there could be historical authenticity issues. Would US army military police really have been allowed to arrest an underage British civilian and transport her across country in handcuffs? But there’s a fair bit of fun, channelling bygone classics such as Hue and Cry and Whistle Down the Wind. Continue reading... | | | | | Amber Heard's attorneys request defamation verdict be tossed | | by Edward Helmore Jul 3, 2022 | | Actor says in 43-page memorandum that the jury’s verdict should be set aside on the grounds that it was unsupported by evidence Attorneys for actor Amber Heard have requested that the judgment against her in the dueling defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp be entirely set aside. Heard, who was found liable on three claims of defamation in June, said in a 43-page memorandum that the jury’s verdict should tossed – and with it a more than $10m award – on the grounds that it was unsupported by evidence. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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