Smudged mascara and the curling of coffee steam. Small yawns and the shuffling of boots. Tangled hair plaited by the same girl from first-year, a crumbly pastry shared with...
When The Anti-gone begins, the only thing onstage is a lectern – stark in the harsh white light and terribly lonely – before Ismene (Kitty Brown) walks uncertainly down the aisle and stares, torn and lost, into the audience.
As ambitious with new sounds as with breaking the rules of spelling, punctuation, and grammar for album titles, Merrill Garbus AKA tUnE-yArDs delivers a promising release in Nikki Nack