Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked
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Artist: Robyn HitchcockEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Music Label: Yep Roc Records
Soundtracks:
- Television
- If You Know Time
- Everybody Needs Love
- English Girl
- Demons & Friends
- Creeped Out
- Sometimes a Blonde
- We're Gonna Live in the Trees
- Tryin' to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door
- Full Moon in My Soul
- Welcome to Earth
- Flanagan's Song
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Free Music Review: Plenty of room here in the trees. Be seeing ya'... :-)
Hit: 5 Stars
It's somewhat disturbing that reviews of Robyn's work seem to always include the word "quirky". I, too, am guilty of having used this word in at least one review of one of Robyn's earlier albums. I will never use this word about Robyn's music again.
Okay, now that I've gotten that noise out of the way: This is really a great album! I do not find the song "Television" especially sad. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, yes. Maybe this is the spookiest song...just can't quite imagine RH having a significant relationship with a television. I find "English Girl" a sad song, "Creeped Out" makes me laugh, "We're Gonna Live in the Trees" both prophetic *and* funny. The Dylan cover ("Trying to Get to Heaven...") is simply gorgeous, "Flanagan's Song" just walks straight into my soul, pitches a tent, lights a fire and now lives permanently inside me. My one contention with any of the material on SPOOKED is with "Welcome to Earth", which is otherwise an absolute dead-on, knee-slapping hoot. Dear Robyn, Ravens DO express ideas and don't always keep them to themselves...you just need to spend enough time out in the woods listening to them. Live in the Trees long enough, treat the ravens well, learn to speak raven and they'll share their ideas.
Robyn, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings work together superbly. The chemistry is miraculous, seamless, awe-inspiring. I can tell this is one CD that will stay with me and be listened to again and again. There's nothing on Earth quite like SPOOKED and you'll be missing something great if you let it get away.
Spooked Poster
Japanese pressing of the irreverent singer/songwriter's 2004 album includes one exclusive bonus track 'No Way Out Of Time'. Caraway.Recorded in Nashville with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Robyn Hitchcock's 23rd solo album in as many years finds him continuing in the acoustic mold of Luxor but with a good dose of Americana, relying solely on the pair for accompaniment, backing vocals, and production. According to Hitchcock, Spooked is essentially the product of a weeklong Dylan-fueled jam session with Welch and Rawlings, a fan of whose Hitchcock had recently become but who had been fans of his for nearly 20 years. "It was as if I was inside one of their records, but with me singing too," said Hitchcock about the sessions, and their influence is indeed palpable, most notably on songs like the folksy "English Girl," with its plaintive guitar and Wurlitzer accompaniment, and the slide-heavy, drum-propelled "We're Gonna Live in the Trees."
Yet the real standout tracks are those to which Welch and Rawlings lend their harmonic talents, such as "Demons and Fiends" and especially "Television." The latter, an earnest, pleading song of love, is among the most heartfelt of Hitchcock's career, even with his bedroom TV set its nominal object. ("Television, I'm so sorry / If I turned you off back then / I'm so small in your dimension / My kid will look like you, I swear.") So it remains a safe bet that there never will be a Robyn Hitchcock album that can't be described at least partially as "quirky"--this one certainly fits the bill. But being able to express penetrating insight and emotion through superficially bizarre material has always been one of his major talents, and Spooked demonstrates that, at age 51, Robyn Hitchcock's best days are definitely not behind him. --Benjamin Lukoff
Recommended Albums by Robyn Hitchcock and Gillian Welch
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