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Lockdown Lovers

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Nifty use of old school samples, tight drums and insistent basslines are the signature moves on this release. The illusive and unreal Hong Kong, so fitting for the flâneur, has now become so regulated as to be almost unrecognisable.

Lockdown Lovers came out earlier this year and takes place in Hong Kong mainly during the beginning of the pandemic.All of the candles are amazing and I don’t find them overly flowery beautiful subtle scents - good for the soul! Lockdown Lovers is a five-part love story set in lockdown conditions in two regions, Asia and Europe. For now, I'm singling out the Kinks one because it's such an original song choice but ask me tomorrow and it'll be a different one! O’Sullivan uses it illuminates a greater, fraught romance—between whom each character believed he or she was (the traveller, the activist, the ambitious academic, the doting father) and whom they can feel themselves becoming.

O’Sullivan’s unique and penetrative writing style reminds us of Hong Kong’s malleability and vulnerability to language.But for fledgling lockdown relationships across the country, the real test will be in the coming months. The Cork setting may seem convenient only because it’s O’Sullivan’s own home town, but, as it turns out, he adds a fascinating Hong Kong connection to this part of the story. This entry was posted in 2021 Books, 2023 Entries, Cha Review of Books and Films, Lockdown Lovers, Lucy Hamilton, Lucy Hamilton—Cha, Michael O'Sullivan, Michael O'Sullivan, Lockdown Lovers, Penguin Random House SEA, Penguin Random House SEA.

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