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Re: Robin Hood
Jul 26, 2023, 14:36
It's really good! Different vibe to Self Civil War/England Expectorates. It's got riffs, electric guitars, real drums (on some songs?), lots of mellotron (obviously). Most of the songs are catchy, punky little movers. Charles the Turd has an incredibly infectious groove (yes, groove!). I don't think it quite reaches the heights of Self Civil War but I might prefer this to England Expectorates. It's more playful. Not sure why he didn't put his name on it (apart from the writing credit) - although Julian Cope appeared as the artist on Apple Music when I ripped it.

It is a bit more lo-fi in places compared with the last couple of albums but the arrangements are a bit more fleshed out so it sounds good to me.

As someone pointed out on one of the Facebook groups, 'Odin in Lindisfarne" and 'Don't You Wanna Just Skin Up?' are swapped on the CD compared with the tracklisting on the back.

Buy if in doubt - this is the new Julian Cope album.
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