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Ian McNabb, Utopian. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Sir Thomas More, whose remains lay the crypt inside The Tower of London, got it wrong when he spoke of the nation having the chance to grasp of being a society built on utopia, like his own relics, his ideas were based on flawed theoretical thinking, a belief that what was under the thumb of the tyrant King Henry VIII was, despite being an imagined island, the epitome of English society, that this utopia, like a new Jerusalem evoked in later centuries was one in which England deserved to be recognised as a force for good.