Re: (TV) TV Cover Star - The Wire

[Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>]

/Around:/

'...nocturnal vignettes like the appropriately titled "Rain, Sidewalk" 
and, on "Wheel Broke" what sounds like a buckled and distorted take on a 
generic 60s guitar instrumental.  Mostly though the mood is semi-Ambient 
with exquisite and cryptic pieces like "Shadow Walks Away" where 
Verlaine's guitar sends transmissions from a lonely place, or glows in 
phospherence as on "Curtains Open"......."Meteor Beach", a creaky 
Hawaiian tune with Syd Barrett-like sections of slide and echo. A 
beautifully realised collection, /Around /is remarkably ego-free...


/Songs and Other Things:

/'is the more compelling of the two...few of the razor-sharp jags of 
/Marquee Moon./..These skeletal songs still employ a typically oblique 
geometry...his vocals, which can be dreadful live sound confident 
here...his lyrics mix chivalrous romanticism and surreal 
observation......although the smart swaggering "From Her Fingers" could 
have come straight off /Adventure, /most of the songs have a different 
type of chemistry...At first [the album] sounds simple to the point of 
throwaway, but gradually gives up its secrets after a number of plays, 
like a series of puzzles, each with a piece missing.

Cheers

Graham


Jay wrote:
> can you summarize the reviews?
>
> --- Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Have just received my copy of the April edition of
>> The Wire.
>>
>> TV on cover  plus  another  four full-page photos
>> inside.   
>> Interview/essay by Alan Licht plus reviews of the
>> two new albums.  
>> Phew!! almost a TV frenzy.  First time I've heard
>> Tom reference Morton 
>> Feldman. 
>>
>>
>> Graham
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