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Sat 03 Mar 2010Season in the sun
The winner of the Choice Music Prize is a little-known Galway man whose album has made critics swoon – but the man compared to Leonard Cohen won’t be having lunch with Simon Cowell just yet, writes BRIAN BOYD
AFTER 35 YEARS reviewing albums for the prestigious French music magazine, Les Inrockuptibles, journalist Richard Robert picked up the last album he would ever write about before his retirement. Robert, it would be safe to say, has heard it all – a few times over. He pressed the play button on Adrian Crowley’s Season Of The Sparks and fell into a deep swoon.
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