Steve Mason review – Beta Band troubadour, stripped back and sublime

Academy 2, ManchesterMason emerges as a superb singer and waggish raconteur in a set built around his stunning recent albumScotsman Steve Mason has steadily crawled from the wreckage of the Beta Band to become one of our most compelling singer-songwriters. Three albums under his own name have delivered elegiac bittersweet symphonies filled with agony and ecstasy, acoustic guitars, electronica and dub. However, strip them down and he emerges as a modern-day troubadour, with tunes that could easil...

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