Jack Penate, Everything Is New

When Jack Penate called his latest album Everything Is New, he wasn't kidding. Alexis Petridis applauds a musical volte-faceIt says something about the musical climate that consternation can be caused by an artist making an album markedly different to its predecessor. Perhaps it's something to do with the long shadow cast by Oasis's continued success, which suggests that a rock band's career should ideally be a kind of forced march: you trudge doggedly along a fixed route and any unexpected devi...

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