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Perspex Island [Amazon] |
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Coming on with a jingle-jangle intro à la an old Byrds hit played by R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Robyn Hitchcock made yet another attempt to record a radio-friendly tune in 1991, but instead turned out a typically gorgeous and cockeyed love song. Produced for Paul Fox for the A&M album Perspex Island, Hitchcock, as usual, is accompanied by the Egyptians' Andy Metcalfe on bass and Morris Windsor on drums. The sound of an early-'90s, lazy snare drum dominates (was it the times or just Windsor's technique?) but Buck's guitar gets buried in mix. Fortunately, Hitchcock's paradoxically detached but exuberant vocal delivery supersedes it all; "So you think you're in love…Are you sure that it's wise? No you probably, ain't." Hitchcock's love songs click when his maturity combines with his evergreen belief in possibility; that's precisely why this composition, recording technique notwithstanding, is among his finest.
Source: allmusic. |
