Composer/producer/ vocalist Andrew Phillips and
manager/musician Marcus O’Dair (who wrote last year’s superb biography
of Robert Wyatt) fuse themes, including identity, home, familiarity and
ancestry, with an impressive if not immersive array of song, ambient
textures and layered electronica.
Coming across like a mix of early Pink Floyd,
classic Pet Shop Boys, Lemon Jelly, Nick Drake and extracts from the
Bodleian Library catalogue, this is beautifully simple music – as much
experimental as pop-oriented – with guest vocalists including Irish
musicians Adrian Crowley and Seamus Fogarty.
