Bristol-based author, poet and cyclist
Better late than never… Wire, Red Barked Tree was reviewed here. I said: “Beautiful and interesting and a bit weird. It’s also quite mellow – apart from the industrial thrash of 2 Minutes, and even that seems rather polite.” PJ Harvey, Let England Shake This may have won awards and plaudits galore but it pales in […]
Read More 2011 Album Round-UpRobin Guthrie (a former Cocteau Twin) has collaborated with American avant-garde composer Harold Budd before, on the wondrous After The Night Falls / Before The Day Breaks albums in 2007. This is a more hesitant, restrained work, recalling Budd’s collaboration with Brian Eno on 1984’s The Pearl. It is supremely beautiful and relaxing and soothing, […]
Read More Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd: Bordeaux
Nick Walters 