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Mojo Piano
Magic David Sheppard
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After the briefest of tenures at 4AD, Piano Magic return to true indiedom with this, their ennui-soaked seventh album. London remains the chief Magician Glen Johnson's base, though his shape=shifting band's latest incarnation is distinctly Francophone, including no less than three Gallic members, while their new boutique label is Spanish. Despite the cosmopolitanism, The Troubled Sleep Of continues where last year's Writers Without Homes left off, inhabiting a parallel universe where This Mortal Coil and Durutti Column set the musical agenda. Thus, Sainte Marie finds Johnson waxing numinous while Vini Reilly guitars circulate toward delay-pedal nirvana; Speed The Road, Rush The Light is Tuxedmoon with a budget and The End Of A Dark, Tired Year is the Buzzcocks' Moving Away From The Pulsebeat as re-imagined by Sigur Ros. Compelling, if unfashionable, then, this could pass for a lost Les Disques Du Crepuscle classic ˆ an observation that won't be lost on an 80's connoisseur like Glen Johnson. **** |