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Linda Thompson: Proxy Music review – rueful songs of love and ageing with an all-star cast
The extended Thompson clan, the Proclaimers and Rufus Wainwright are among those lending their voices to a moving set from a folk great
You call in your team, your proxies, to lend their pipes – hence the title of this first album in a decade from Linda Thompson (and its cover, a spoof on Roxy Music’s 1972 debut). Here she calls on her extended family to deliver a set of songs that cast a rueful eye on love and ageing, underscored by an unquenchable sense of hope. Closer in mood to her often wintry folk-rock past are I Used to Be So Pretty, voiced by Ren Harvieu, and Three Shaky Ships, boasting the immaculate harmonies of the Unthanks.
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