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An album of Tim Minchin’s personal tribulations? Surely he owes us more – Sydney Morning Herald
The separation of performers from fans has been no laughing matter this year. Nowhere is that more audible than here, on Tim Minchin’s first-ever studio album.
It’s fair to say that compared to the more or less objective targets of his best work God, shysters, redheads, inflatable lovers, popes, Christmas, Cardinal Pell the personal tribulations of the mega-successful jet-setting entertainer’s lifestyle don’t resonate with his usual zing.
Minchin’s usual conversational charm is replaced by the echo-chamber affectations of A Guy Making A Record.Credit:Janie Barrett
In his rather less economical Ben Folds way, he does hit the universal bullseyes of death…
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