 | Jewels for Sophia - Robyn Hitchcock
Publisher: Noble Rot
Released on 09 July 2007
List Price: £9.99
In making his first "rock" record since 1993's Respect, Robyn Hitchcock recorded Jewels for Sophia using several different combinations of producers, locations, and collaborators, including members of the Young Fresh Fellows, Grant Lee Buffalo, R.E.M., and the Soft Boys. Not surprisingly, the record is an intentionally eclectic spectacle, spanning the breadth of Hitchcock's ever-expanding, strange universe. He has covered a lot of territory in the 23 years since founding the Soft Boys and much of it is recalled here, from the scalding rock & roll of the Kimberly Rew collaboration "NASA Clapping" to the blistering guitar gymnastics of "The Cheese Alarm" and the beautiful psychedelic folk of "No, I Don't Remember Guilford", all of which are coloured by Hitchcock's long-running themes of the absurdity of the human condition and our (often futile and surreal) attempts to make sense of it all. In spite this tumult, however, Jewels is primarily a collection of love... Read More
| Tracks |
| Mexican God | Cheese Alarm | Viva Sea-Tac | I Feel Beautiful |
| You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You Baby | NASA Clapping | Sally Was A Legend | Antwoman |
| Elizabeth Jade | No I Don't Remember Guildford | Dark Princess | Jewels For Sophia |
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