Fantastically original, eclectic and melodious eponymous debut by the duo of Blur’s Graham Coxon, and ex-Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall, packed with an indefinable mix of indie pop, folk, post-punk and much more in a free-flowing tapestry of sounds and textures. It’s a project born in lockdown that came with no guidelines but a chance to do something different, and so it really does. As well as guitar of course, Coxon plays saxophone several tracks, one of his first instruments from back in the 80s, and not least on the dark, menacingly brilliant and thrumming Kill Me Again, in which the pair tag-team their vocals. Opener Can I Call You, meanwhile, begins with a brilliant noir melody, then morphs into has a mesmeric krautrock momentum. All Along sees Coxon playing a cittern, a medieval folk lute. Drowning has a dream-like psychedelic folk style with wonderfully rich, cinematic orchestration, and closing track You’re All I Want To Know is more akin to a slow, country love song with a razor-sharp guitar solo and swooning orchestra and horn section. Packed with variety and talent, Coxon and Dougall’s interweaving makes for a wonderfully different fabric. Out on Transgressive, or via Graham Coxon’s website. See also previous Song of the Day Something Pretty.
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