''Robyn Hitchcock'' is the twenty-first studio album by British musician
Robyn Hitchcock. It was released in 2017 through
Yep Roc
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. The album, largely rooted in
psychedelic rock
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, represents a stylistic change from his previous LP, ''
The Man Upstairs'', which was entirely acoustic.
Reception
The album received generally positive reviews. Jon Young, writing for
Paste Magazine, noted that the album "feels familiar and utterly fresh at once", also being "a perfect summation of the artist, as the title suggests".
AllMusic
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reviewer James Christopher Monger called it "easily his most vibrant collection of new music since the early 1990s".
Track listing
''All compositions by Robyn Hitchcock.''
#"I Want to Tell You About What I Want"
#"Virginia Woolf"
#"I Pray When I'm Drunk"
#"Mad Shelley's Letterbox"
#"Sayonara Judge"
#"Detective Mindhorn"
#"1970 in Aspic"
#"Raymond and the Wires"
#"Autumn Sunglasses"
#"Time Coast"
Personnel
*Robyn Hitchcock – guitar, vocals
*
Anne McCue
Anne McCue is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, music-recording producer, video director, and radio host from Australia, more recently (as of 2007) based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Early life and education
McCue grew up in Camp ...
– guitar
*Jon Estes – bass
*Jon Radford – drums
*
Pat Sansone – vocal
*
Grant Lee Phillips
Grant-Lee Phillips (born Bryan G. Phillips; September 1, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He led the group Grant Lee Buffalo in the 1990s, afterwards launching a solo career. He features as the town troubadour ...
– vocals
*
Emma Swift
Emma Swift (born 15 December 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Before becoming a musician, she was a radio broadcaster, hosting Americana music show ''In the Pines'' on FBi Radio and ''Revelator'' on Double J at Australian Broadcasting ...
– vocals
*
Gillian Welch – vocals
References
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2017 albums
Robyn Hitchcock albums
Yep Roc Records albums