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Gramsci - Hinterland

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Gramsci - HinterlandAn album half a lifetime in the making, Gramsci emerge once more from the shadows with THE HINTERLANDS, a deeply sonic musical experience that brings maverick musician, singer and guitarist Paul McLaney full circle. Borne out of the remarkable and highly diverse body of work recorded under various guises and over a career spanning 20+ years, McLaney says, For the first time I feel like all of the separate aspects of my musical expression have found

An album half a lifetime in the making, Gramsci emerge once more from the shadows with THE HINTERLANDS, a deeply sonic musical experience that brings maverick musician, singer and guitarist Paul McLaney full circle.

 

Borne out of the remarkable and highly diverse body of work recorded under various guises and over a career spanning 20+ years, McLaney says, “For the first time I feel like all of the separate aspects of my musical expression have found their shared equilibrium. It’s the album that all of my musical adventures and experiments have led me to, at this point in time.”

 

McLaney has experimented across many genres over the years, and the resulting musical education and experience has rewarded him accordingly. An exceptionally talented musician, McLaney has explored solo-acoustic, ambient-electronica, prog-rock, piano, Te Reo Shakespearian theatre and numerous collaborations with some of our most loved musicians such as Anika Moa, Julia Deans, Concord Dawn, Fly My Pretties, SJD, Breaks Co-op – the list goes on and on. Ultimately, all projects have contributed to this stunning collection of songs.

 

Despite having released such a vast catalogue of songs, McLaney is not one to chase commercial success, and as such, his music exists on the periphery. “In many ways my career is a complete exposition of what not to do! Looking back I can see now that it was because all of those songs and albums felt more like preparations/studies, and so I was always moving onto the next one; trying to improve and hone my craft and facility.”

 

At the heart of it all is Gramsci. “That is the cauldron really, the place where each of these separate expressions merge,” says McLaney.

 

Having put that cauldron aside for over 15 years while becoming a father and raising a family, Gramsci was resurrected with last years’ INHERITANCE album, released into the chaos of a global pandemic. “I didn’t want to be away, but fundamentally I had an overwhelming knowingness that I needed to explore the far reaches of my musicality to actually be able to crystalise my own expression. But the key reason for the return has really been my teaming up with Greg.”

 

Greg Haver is an award winning Welsh record producer most renowned for his work with The Manic Street Preachers. “Being asked to join a band again, especially with such a stellar musician as Paul McLaney, was both unexpected and intriguing. The fact that it was also Gramsci and that Paul entrusted me with both playing and co-productions, made the decision to reply in the affirmative an easy one. Re-tracing the sonics and production value that imbued my early career felt like music had come full circle. It was a joy to play with Paul and Marika Hodgson and work with the rest of the talented team on  THE HINTERLANDS album.”

 

With THE HINTERLANDS, McLaney circles back to his 16 year old self who was intoxicated by The Cure, Pink Floyd, The The, The Smiths and the worlds they created that he could escape into; safe harbours. “It’s me owning up to who I am as a musician, a writer, a guitarist - understanding the power and expression that particular instrument can have as a release for the things you can’t articulate in words. And for the first time I’m not thinking about the next thing; it feels like the arrival.”

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Kat
Pawtucket, US
★★★★★ 5
a quiet life???
This is a short story collection like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie have for Holmes and Poirot/Marple. The characters remind me of the Phryne Fisher books. There are four stories in Book 1 A Quiet Life in the Country Lady Emily Hartcastle and her maid Miss Florence Armstrong are enjoying some time in the country in the small town of Littleton Cotterell when they come across a dead body. They find out that it is Frank Pickering, a local man and it is thought that he committed suicide. But investigating, it seems that he has been murdered. Who did it and why? The Circus comes to town Lady Hartcastle meets an old friend George who is the manager who for a circus that has come to town. The next day, the juggler Hubert 'Huey' Parving is found dead mawled in a cage and then others began to die. Who is behind this? The Case of the Missing Case Lady Hartcastle and Flo go to the engagement party of young Clarissa Farley-Strouds. The next day, Nelson Holloway, the trumpet player with that night's entertainment - Roland Richman's Ragtime Revue. Who killed him? As they investigate, the clues lead them to possible cursed stolen jewel. The Half-Death of Gunther Ehrlichmann Florence recounts her life before and after meeting Lady and Lord Hartcastle as she and Lady Hartcastle along with Lady Hartcastle's brother hunt down a killer. Each story is tied into the other, but exciting! Must read!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2016
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Cynthia D. Vosler
Lake Worth, US
★★★★★ 5
Great read!
Format: Kindle
Absolutely enjoyable read. Great characters, can't wait for their next adventure! If you like enjoyable fast reads a good mystery and some delightful laughs this series is for you!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2026
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Sophia Rose
Charlottesville, US
★★★★★ 4
Fun Seeing Where it All Begins for the Fantastic Amateur Detecting Duo
Format: Audiobook
I started with book three in this series, progressed forward, and finally took the opportunity to go back and get the first book in the series. The whimsical, cozy mystery paired with historical Edwardian setting was light and whimsical. Actually, when I started listening, I realized that the first book introduced Lady Hardcastle and her ladies' maid, Florence Armstrong along with their new home and the other regular characters, in such a way that it didn't feel like the first book so much as the first of the stories that had been recorded. There are hints of their unusual, dangerous work abroad and no big explanation why the pair happened to be set upon 'a quiet life in the country' or why Lady Hardcastle and Florence have a relationship that is nearly family rather than an employer and servant from separate classes. The author trickles out the details and the reader/listener must catch them and piece them together as they go. Because I had experienced later books, those pieces stuck out easily to me. The meeting with Inspector Sunderland and the local villagers and neighborhood was fun. There are two murder mysteries that have interesting crossover people and facts. One seems to involve a dead man from the village cricket team whose death was meant to appear like a suicide and then later, the death of a rag-time band trumpeteer that played at the engagement party of the local squire's daughter. A theft is tossed in for good measure. I figured out one of the murders and part of the theft and the second murder, but the ultimate solution took me by surprise. Loved seeing the intrepid Flo able to get in some of her martial arts ability and spend time trailing along as they teased out the solution along side Inspector Sunderland. Elizabeth Knowelden is an absolute gem of a narrator and the voice of this series for me. She laid out the Edwardian country village world, the variety of genders and accents, and kept the pace and tone for this series just right. All in all, I thought this first entry was as fabulous as the later books and do not hesitate to put it out there as a good bet for historical cozy mystery lovers.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2019
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Leond
Battle Creek, US
★★★★★ 5
Must read!!!!
Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback
Surprise plot intertwined with story of loss, grief, family and sibling relationships. The book starts off normally and twists and turns. Could not put book down. Great writing and plot development. Can’t wait to read more by this author.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2026
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Josh Mauthe
Lexington, US
★★★★★ 4
A story about what's left behind after death, both emotionally & spiritually - oh, and evil puppets
Format: Kindle
It takes a bit for Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House to get to the "haunted" part of that title, but that's okay, really; what Hendrix is interested in here, as much as anything, is haunting in terms of the literal things left behind by death - the traumas that are left for those who survive, the guilt, the shame, the baggage, and all of the other things left behind by those who went before us. And, in the case of Louise and Mark Joyner, puppets. Lots and lots and lots of puppets. Oh, and one of them might be alive and malevolent, turning all of that metaphorical trauma into a very real presence (and, without getting into spoiler territory, all without losing that symbolic weight) - and one that allows Hendrix to bring real horror into the story of an estranged pair of siblings forced back into contact in the weight of their parents' death, and the reckoning that they have to go through as they deal with painful memories and a nightmare puppet. The end result can feel a little cluttered at times (although, by the end, it turns out to be a lot more interconnected and structured than you might realize along the way), and it doesn't help that it features some very fraught family interactions that cross from "painful" to "infuriating" very quickly. But as ever with Hendrix, there's more heart and emotion here than you might expect, and while it's all handled in his usual slightly off-kilter and unique sensibility, it still knows how to deliver the goods both on a horror front and a character one. I'd put it among the weakest of Hendrix's efforts overall, but there's a caveat here, and it's that I don't think anything he's read has ever been anything less than entertaining and solid overall, so even a weaker entry? Still a good time and a good read.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2023

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