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Me and my new Merz albun
7/10
Merz’s singular vocals - pitched somewhere between Bob Dylan and Horace Andy (to my ears anyway) - first surfaced in 1999 with his eponymous debut album and a couple of memorable singles that got a lot of airplay on Radio One and the likes. A mix of (sometimes baroque) [...]

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Like a rolling stone
6.5/10
‘I’m Not There‘ is a wildly impressionistic film packed with visual trickery and esoteric musical and cultural references. With six characters employed intermittantly to represent different facets of the Bob Dylan’s life and work - without mentioning him by name - this is sometimes too self-consciously arty, a willfully experimental mess. It [...]

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