From Eamonn Sent Sat, Feb 21st 1998, 09:42
From Eamonn Sent Sat, Feb 21st 1998, 09:42
>> There's just something a bid too middle-of-the-road about them... > >I think "Everybody is a Star.." has some of the happiest bleepy, filtery >lines on it that I've yet to hear. It is happy and funky without being >sappy or just insipid or disposable rave-crap, at least the 6 tracks on >that LP that I like. I wasn't too interested in the green LP that came >after it. I remember when the 12" with [?old Soft MAchine lead singer] >came out (94?), I thought they lost a lot of their originality. > Robert Wyatt it was (he was the Soft's drummer too). That green one, "United Kingdoms", with 2 tracks with Wyatt, was excellently original. It was a blend of an English folky feel with electronica and worked excellently! It was 93 I think.