Greetings folks,
Hope you're all doing okay. Yep, @kleptones back again after an action packed couple of weeks off, dealing with much cavity swabbing on the way to and fro the sceptered isle (aka "Plague Island"), which seems to have passed without incident, although the level of paperwork and travel stress was considerably higher than any I have undertaken for many a year (probably since the last time I traveled to the USA... ah, NSA I do not miss your interrogations one bit, can't imagine what it would be like now...). Still, we got there, we experienced much reunions and rejoicing, and we got back okay, with a fine Nick Cave & Warren Ellis concert as a reward (front row to boot, yay!). So, nursing a small hangover, we proceed...
"This album’s a guilty pleasure, both for me and for the artist who recorded it. After a major hit with a ballad, this mystery songwriter turned to a more alternative sound for his next album. His label stepped into the traditional label role of villain by withholding support, so this one flopped hard. He never had another hit. Themes found in track 7 were especially dear to the artist’s heart, and that’s the track that fascinated me when I bought this album in a used-record store in Turlock, California, about five years after it came out. Some of my fondness for fusing singer-songwriter with electronic effects probably dates from listening to this album in college.
Pour yourself an amaretto sour and settle in."
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