Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang: The Wonder Show of the World | CD review

(Domino)Domino have come up with an amusing wheeze to promote the 20th album involving former Palace Brother Will Oldham: 150 hand-carved bottle-stoppers in the image of the frowning "Bonnie Prince". You can't help wonder what the old Oldham of harrowing confessionals such as I See a Darkness would have thought of such a jape, but the 39-year-old is clearly mellowing. With Emmett Kelly and Shahzad Ismaily forming a trio, this is wistful, soft rock reminiscent of Neil Young, James Taylor and even...

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