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Evening Standard
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Maddy Mussen

Barry Can’t Swim at All Points East review: Wholesomeness and dance music joy in spades

Barry Can’t Swim is perhaps the polar opposite of a Marmite musician. He is widely beloved, extremely inoffensive, and critically acclaimed. The big three. His music is also inextricably linked to summer, with Clash Magazine declaring his 2025 LP Loner, "a gorgeous and varied album that will surely soundtrack countless summers.”

It makes total sense, then, that the Edinburgh-born DJ (real name Joshua Spence Mainne) would be top of the billing for a day of All Points East this year.

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