and he’s in rare form indeed on Mock Tudor. It’s a concept album, a loose chronicle covering nearly half a century in less than picturesque corners of London and its suburbs. However ...

Mock Tudor finds Thompson turning his attention to civilization and its discontents in the post-industrial age. Not that you'd notice if it weren't for the album's title and track arrangement ...

As London’s tendrils continue to claw their way out into the Home Counties like some virulent urban cancer, the city depicted in ‘Mock Tudor’, folk-rock fetish-icon[a]Richard Thompson[/a ...