![]() ![]() ![]() “Detective Mindhorn”-a nod to the 2016 film Mindhorn, written by and starring Hitchcock’s friend Julian Barratt of British comedy troupe the Mighty Boosh-may be the most ’60s-leaning track on the record, with echoes of the Beatles and the Kinks, and maybe even a slight twinge of Herman’s Hermits. “I Pray When I’m Drunk” is a rollicking number that sounds almost like a mash-up of British psych rock and outlaw country. It recalls the work of legendary Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett, one of Hitchcock’s musical heroes, with a wall of trippy, interlocking guitar tracks that pulsate and percolate. ![]() It’s an album (and perhaps an entire career) that explores, in a nutshell, how the world is screwed, humankind is woefully misguided, and yet life is still somehow beautiful and there’s joy to be had.įor example, “Virginia Woolf” considers the legacies (and suicides) of Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Hitchcock has described Robyn Hitchcock as “an ecstatic work of negativity,” and while that might seem to be just an example of the artist’s dry humor, it’s also a sharp assessment. And now, at age 64, he’s gone back to his roots with an eponymous new album that harks back to his Soft Boys days. Though the sonic backdrops for Hitchcock’s musings have been widely varied during his prolific 40-plus-year career, his distinctive voice, droll wit, and gift for at times haunting verbal imagery have been constants throughout. ![]() The unmistakably British singer-songwriter’s career has gone through numerous permutations, beginning with the seminal late-’70s art rock band the Soft Boys, and including incarnations with the Egyptians and the Venus 3, not to mention various solo albums and projects, among them the critically acclaimed 2004 collaboration with Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Spooked. Musically speaking, things have come full circle for Robyn Hitchcock. ![]()
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