Robyn Hitchcock (2017 album)

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Robyn Hitchcock
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Studio album by
Released21 April 2017
StudioReadymade Studios, Nashville
Genre Psychedelic rock, pop rock
Label Yep Roc
Producer Robyn Hitchcock, Brendan Benson
Robyn Hitchcock chronology
The Man Upstairs
(2014)
Robyn Hitchcock
(2017)
Planet England
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic (80/100) [1]
Review scores
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Robyn Hitchcock is the twenty-first studio album by British musician Robyn Hitchcock. It was released in 2017 through Yep Roc. The album, largely rooted in psychedelic rock, represents a stylistic change from his previous LP, The Man Upstairs , which was entirely acoustic. [2]

Contents

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". [3] AllMusic reviewer James Christopher Monger called it "easily his most vibrant collection of new music since the early 1990s". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Robyn Hitchcock.

  1. "I Want to Tell You About What I Want"
  2. "Virginia Woolf"
  3. "I Pray When I'm Drunk"
  4. "Mad Shelley's Letterbox"
  5. "Sayonara Judge"
  6. "Detective Mindhorn"
  7. "1970 in Aspic"
  8. "Raymond and the Wires"
  9. "Autumn Sunglasses"
  10. "Time Coast"

Personnel

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References

  1. "Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock". Metacritic. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Monger, James Christopher. "Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 Young, Jon (17 April 2017). "Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock". Paste Magazine. Retrieved 25 June 2017.