I Wanna Go Backwards (CD)

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• Release Date: October 16, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yep Roc Records
• UPC: 634457261020
• WAPI (Tower ID): 111447418
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Spin (p.117) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the trippy singer/songwriter's best bits, with hooks, melodies, and Byrdsian guitar zing..."
Uncut (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Hitchcock's] back catalogue is finally getting the attention it deserves....The real treasure is in the demo and rarities discs...where Hitchcock's playfulness is given free rein."
No Depression (p.67) - "As a singer, he can be simultaneously acerbic and warm, threatening and intimate. He gets under your skin."
Q (Magazine) (p.109) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[N]o one has done more to keep the spirit of Syd Barrett-esque psychedelia alive than one-time Soft Boy Robyn Hitchcock."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.86) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Hitchcock dabbles in pastoral psychedelia, occasionally flirting with REM's guitar-based lyricism and the social conscience of Billy Bragg. To hear these works-in-progress is like a spending a few hours in his front room."

Personnel: Robyn Hitchcock (various instruments, guitar, piano, bass guitar); Kimberley Rew, Knox (guitar); James Fletcher (saxophone); Matthew Seligman (bass instrument, bass guitar); Chris Cox (bass guitar, background vocals); Morris Windsor (drums, background vocals); Vince Ely (drums); Robb Appleton, Howie Gilbert (background vocals); Tom Dolby.

Issued by the Yep Roc label in 2007, this five-disc Robyn Hitchcock box set collects three of the beloved British singer-songwriter's finest solo albums--BLACK SNAKE DIAMOND ROLE (1981), I OFTEN DREAM OF TRAINS ('84), and EYE ('90)--and presents two discs of attendant bonus material. While BLACK SNAKE finds the witty performer in full-band mode with his former Soft Boys comrades (see the Beatlesque "Out of the Picture"), TRAINS and EYE showcase Hitchcock in spare, acoustic-oriented settings, as on the giddy "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl" and the gentle "Queen Elvis," respectively. Highlights of the rarities portion of the collection include the beautifully morbid lo-fi ditty "Lovers Turn to Skulls" and the dreamy, Syd Barrett-like "She Reached for a Light," songs that exemplify Hitchcock's charming eccentricities. Although too in-depth for fair-weather Hitchcock fans, this well-compiled and annotated anthology will be warmly embraced by the quirky troubadour's ardent admirers.

Album Review

Robyn Hitchcock has finally begun the daunting task of compiling his groundbreaking post-Soft Boys solo catalog with the I Wanna Go Backwards box set. The first of two upcoming collections, I Wanna Go Backwards includes three of his most classic albums. Hitchcock's first solo album Black Snake Diamond Role (remastered for this collection) is a private rock album featuring ex-Soft Boys, a Vibrator, a Fur and other friends. I Often Dream of Trains finds Robyn at his all-acoustic zenith with a seminal collection of kaleidoscopic, stripped down folk. Eye continues in the tradition of Trains draping Hitchcock's signature layered lyrical imagery over his most musically direct work to date. All the albums feature bonus tracks and enhanced liner notes: reminiscences (BSDR & WTMB), an excerpt from a novel in progress (Trains), and original poetry (Eye), plus previously unseen photos and Hitchcock cartoons. Additional bonus material includes While Thatcher Mauled Britain Part 1 & 2, a two-disc comprehensive look at a labyrinth of Robyn's largely unreleased solo b-sides, outtakes and home recordings. Black Snake Diamond Role and I Often Dream of Trains have been remastered for this collection.

In addition to the exclusive box set packaging, all three albums will also be simultaneously re-released individually, allowing fans to fill the gaps in their Hitchcock compendiums. Individual album versions will also feature the bonus tracks included on the box set versions as well as the enhanced liner notes. In addition to compact disc format the set will also be released in an eight-record vinyl box set version complete with original LP artwork. The combined release of the I Wanna Go Backwards box set and the individual albums that comprise it are the definitive document of a career defining period of creation for one of the worlds most eccentric and beloved singer/songwriters, a must-have for collectors and fanatics alike.

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