Matthew Herbert: One Pig – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonSonic prankster Matthew Herbert makes rigorous, sample-based music that deals with serious issues in a somewhat didactic manner; one jape involved driving a tank over the replication of a dinner Nigella Lawson cooked for Tony Blair and George W Bush. He describes One Pig – an album that documents a pig's 20-week life, from birth to slaughter to plate – as a critical look at the meat industry. But Herbert ends up with something rather more ambiguous.His quintet, we...

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