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The Great Bailout

by Moor Mother (ANTI-, CD, DL, LP) moormother.net

This isn’t just an album, it’s a history lesson, except the effects of the history at hand – the legacy of Britain’s deep involvement with the slave trade – still very much reverberates. , the ninth studio album from Moor Mother, is targeted at: soul, freeform jazz, a wordless gospel, a ripping, buzzing electronica: they are all united by anger, by sorrow, and, via the poetry of Moor Mother herself, a call for justice.

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