Tinariwen - ElwanThe new album Elwan by Tinariwen could well have been called Exile on Main Street. Others have already thought of that, but the idea is apt. As is the painful paradox, if you consider that while Tinariwen were criss crossing the globe on their recent triumphant tours, the frontiers that encircle their desert home were closing and forcing them into exile to record their new album Elwan, released on Wedge. In recent years, Tinariwens homeland, a Saharan

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world music and experimental pop

and the record is imbued with the same kind of post-modern spirit as that classic as it pairs Latin rhythms

Their 360o approach is closer to the art / music crossover of acts such as Throbbing Gristle

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Everyone I Know Is Falling Apart is the culmination of all of their disparate influences - indie heroes Teenage Fanclub

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The songs here

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With members stemming from psych rock bands Dungen and Granada