Anohni: Hopelessness review – the most profound protest record in decades

(Rough Trade)Last November, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke opined on the problems facing modern protest songwriters: “If I was going to write a song about climate change in 2015, it would be shit,” he said. “In the 60s, you could write songs that were like calls to arms … it’s much harder to do that now.”Harder, perhaps, but not impossible. A week or so after Yorke made his remarks, Anohni teased her new track 4 Degrees, a combination of cutting-edge electroni...

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