Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Alternative/Indie | Heft: Jahrgang 2013, eclipsed Nr. 150 / 5-2013 | VÖ-Jahr: 2013 | Wertung: 6/10 | Label: Yep Rock | Autor: SaS
2013 is slowly developing into the year of the Eighties-Indie nostalgia. In April Crime & The City Solution released a new album, this month the old master Robyn Hitchcock is at the starting line as well as The Saints. One who has never really made it, but whose name is familiar to most music fans, even though they often can't name a single song by him. Maybe Hitchcock's problem is his refusal to commit to one direction. Although the ten songs on "Love From London" can also be classified as indie pop, Hitchcock basically does something completely different on each track: from the moving, piano-driven epic of the opener "Harry's Song" to jazz pop excursions, rock, chanson-like to the sentimental conclusion "End Of Time". Unfortunately, not everything was equally successful. In fact, Robyn Hitchcock is best when he comes out pathetically sad, when he doesn't give priority to the playfulness of his music, but to his own state of mind. So "Love From London" is altogether half-baked: much tried, only a fraction successful.
Top track: Harry's Song
