Robyn Hitchcock "Moss Elixir" 1996

"...untangles the sometimes strained complexity of 1991's PERSPEX ISLAND and 1993's RESPECT with unfussy arrangements that field a single guitar or a full electric band to the same glowing effect..." - Rolling Stone (10/17/96, p.137)
Wisely, Robyn Hitchcock chucked the band sound (though longtime associates Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe continue to lend their services on some tracks) and returned to the spare singer/songwriter format for his best set of songs in more than ten years. Everything is here: the quirky on "Man with a Woman's Shadow," and the elegant on "Beautiful Queen," and the straight-ahead Beatlessque music in which Hitchcock excels in the perfect pop of "Alright, Yeah." Finally, Hitchcock embraced his folk guitar roots, which hearken back to the days of the Incredible String Band and Roy Harper, while imprinting his indelible lyrical and vocal stamp, one of the true leading lights of contemporary alternative music. - Review by Denise Sullivan
trax:
01 Sinister But She Was Happy 02 The Devil's Radio 03 Heliotrope 04 Alright, Yeah 05 Filthy Bird 06 The Speed Of Things 07 Beautiful Queen 08 Man With A Woman's Shadow 09 I Am Not Me 10 De Chirico Street 11 You And Oblivion 12 This Is How It Feels