It was, by anyone's standards, a hugely accomplished and timely album: on a musical level, it demonstrated her mastery of pretty much every genre to which she chose to turn her hand, from country to hard rock to high-drama balladry built out of abstract electronica.
So for Aidan O'Brien to help War Front earn his stripes is both timely and hugely significant.
Powerful, passionate and often personal (she records her own hounding by "the mob" over her comments about Kashmir), this work is timely and hugely important in its targets: it's hard to think of bigger dangers, or more harmful effects, than from faceless, unaccountable conglomerates.
Still, it's not hugely surprising — given how timely this pro-privacy project is.
It seems a fitting epitaph for a singular woman, and a timely epilogue to Maddocks's hugely enjoyable and informative book.
It also makes timely sense, given a growing public interest in the hugely diverse stretch of cultural terrain known as "African art".
Some executives even expect it to take off like M-Pesa, Kenya's hugely successful mobile-money service.Such growth in digital education would be timely.
