The Quietus | Reviews | Simon Goff
Vale Brian Coney , May 17th, 2021 08:26 Jóhann Jóhannsson collaborator Simon Goff scores big with a meditation on place and placelessness, finds Brian Coney Exploring the doomy communitas of lockdown via song is one thing. Feature-length takes on the purgatorial plight of post-Brexit Britain is quite another. It’s a conceptual minefield that few artists could navigate without resorting to the dreaded over-reach. For English violinist and composer Simon Goff, any such doubt is cast out from the get-go on his debut solo album, Vale. Since trading North Yorkshire for Berlin a few months ...