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Actor Maxine Peake delivers the combination of historical narrative and polemic in her blackest-pudding accent, over a gamelan tinkle of synth tones and string synths that evoke the blend of grit and gentrification now surrounding these events. Tender sensibilities are not spared, especially in the cursings of "Ghost of Old Lizzy Southerns Returns".
Download: Another Witch is Dead; Trial by Jiggery Pokery; Ghost of Old Lizzy Southerns Returns
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