OWEN PALLETT & THE HIDDEN CAMERAS (London EartH, 10/04/23)

One of the plus sides of my road-trip to Croatia meeting an unexpectedly early terminus was that it allowed me to catch the artist formerly known as Final Fantasy loop their fiddle on these shores for the first time in eight years, ably accompanied by veteran “gay church folk” balladeer Joel Gibb. Needless to say, it was outrageously good, and "The Great Elsewhere" and "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" will never fail to clobber me in the emotions.