What Are You Listening To?

[SteveO]

This is an incredible listen !!!!!

i-Pod listening in the garden this PM.

Second solo outing for ex-Soft Machine drummer, from 1974.

The Jazz of The Soft Machine runs throughout this album, but it's in the background, and this is certainly not a Jazz-Rock album. I'm not even sure it's really a Rock album, I'll leave that for others to decide.

It's much more palatable than much of his former bands' work, and is an engaging, if slightly strange, album. Released shortly after he was paralysed in an accident, it would be forgiveable if this was a dark album of self-pity & navel gazing, but it's far from that. What you get are some strangely psychedelic songs, mixed with some intimately personal ones, all of a generally contented nature, & all delivered in Wyatt's odd, but affecting voice.

Minor classic.


AllMusic 4+/5 stars.