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Spooked (Digipak) (CD)

By: Robyn Hitchcock (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Spooked (Digipak) (CD) Album By Robyn Hitchcock (Artist)
1   Television
2   If You Know Time
3   Everybody Needs Love
4   English Girl
5   Demons & Fiends
6   Creeped Out
7   Sometimes A Blonde
8   We're Gonna Live In The Trees
9   Tryin' To Get To Heaven Before They Close The Door
10   Full Moon In My Soul
11   Welcome To Earth
12   Flanagan's Song
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.103) - 3 stars out of 5 - "It's about as country-soulful as an old British indie guy can get."
Uncut (p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[An] intimate, woody collection of fractured folk, gently nudged askew by Hitchcock's head-tripping surrealism..."
Magnet (p.109) - "[Y]ou're plunged into an uneasy world you'd forgotten even existed. Featuring virtuoso American duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings throughout..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 - "SPOOKED shows that when the light of inspiration catches him from the right angle, Hitchcock remains a potent, funny and genuinely affecting songwriter."

Title Note

Personnel: Robyn Hitchcock (vocals, guitar, sitar, harmonica, Wurlitzer piano); David Rawlings (guitar, dobro, Wurlitzer piano, tambourine, background vocals); Gillian Welch (guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, background vocals); Joey Spampinato (bass guitar).

Recording information: Woodland Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (2004).

Robyn Hitchcock's SPOOKED is the artifact of a brilliant week of acoustic jamming and recording in Nashville, Tennessee with roots mavens Gillian Welch (who sings harmonies and plays guitar, bass, and drums) and David Rawlings (who produces and plays keyboards and guitar). There are few overdubs, and the musicians play directly off each other, eschewing even headphones in an effort to achieve true musical communion. The Nashville duo's natural gravity and grace temper British rocker Hitchcock's more eccentric tendencies, resulting in a balanced, subtle, and disarmingly earnest set of songs.

Though Welch's vocal presence lends a novel feminine touch, and Rawlings's electric piano and slide guitar take Hitchcock's songs in new directions, loyalists will not feel lost. The spoken "Welcome to Earth" will gratify fans of Hitchcock's surreal and hilarious onstage banter, and the a cappella "Demons & Fiends" revisits the slightly dissonant vocal harmonies of earlier Hitchcock faves. Elsewhere, the quietly intense "Creeped Out" is Hitchcock at his vitriolic best, and "We're Gonna Live in the Trees" sounds like a gleeful BTO with a primate fixation. The standout track here is the wistful "Sometimes a Blonde," with its beautiful descending guitar pattern that grows more insistent as it weaves around an increasingly urgent vocal and tangy dobro. SPOOKED is proof that an artist can mature, and even quiet down, without losing an ounce of vibrancy.

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