HITCHCOCK, Robyn - The Confuser - Vinyl (limited gatefold lime vinyl LP)
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Robyn HITCHCOCK
The Confuser
Tiny Ghost
limited gatefold lime vinyl LP Cat: 820200 986061Rel: 24 Aug 26
Indie/Alternative Side 1 - Track 1. I Am This Thing Side 1 - Track 2. My Dead Astronaut Side 1 - Track 3. Yesterday's Rain Side 1 - Track 4. Breathless Side 1 - Track 5. Ghost In Sunlight Side 2 - Track 1. Building From The Ruins Side 2 - Track 2. The Vanishing Kind Side 2 - Track 3. How To Feel Alright Side 2 - Track 4. Monday For Me Side 2 - Track 5. Wasted
The 25th solo album from British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock sees him looking back to his time with legendary but underrated The Soft Boys and indulging in something he seems to have labelled "jangle rock".
To be fair, there is a fair amount of jangle on display, but The Confuser is, in fact, a far more robust-sounding album than that adjective might suggest. Opening track 'I Am This Thing' wastes no time grabbing the attention with its footstomping glam rock attack and daft lyrics. Scratch the surface, however, and this apparently throwaway introduction possesses more depth than it lets on, with Hitchcock musing on music, existence and ultimately death. It sounds positively jubilant. The heady mix of funk and psychedelic rock on 'Building From The Ruins' casts an absurdist eye over the state of the world, concludes that nobody gets out of here alive and opts to dance like Bez for whatever time there might be left. Where The Confuser succeeds is in Hitchcock's ability to write insanely catchy tunes ('My Dead Astronaut') and combine pathos with rock music, delivered with real passion and vigour ('How To Feel Alright'). The answer as to how to feel alright is, as it turns out, to spend some time in the company of Hitchcock's music. There's a passion here that is palpable.
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