[Still ill; but getting better. Lucy is worse. Thankfully the Boy doesn't seem to have caught what we've got (touch wood), but he is out of sorts in other ways, feeding less and sleeping more, but still good tempered in between. He sleeps now. I am the only one awake in the house. It's 4pm, and the world beyond our door seems a long way away. Must be quick.]
This was another gift from Tim. Looking back at his record so far, I'd say that one out of three of his selections have been hits, and another one out of three have been interesting misses. That leaves one out of three where he maybe just didn't try very hard. The fact that he left the £3.99 Vinyl Exchange price label stick to the jewel case kind of suggested this might be in the last category. I'm not sure I'd even listened to it until today. But if I was guilty of jumping to hasty conclusions, my hasty audition suggest they were the right conclusions.
It's one of those albums where a producer collaborates with a different singer/writer on each song. Has that Ronson bloke done an album like that? Wouldn't surprise me. But the only such album I can think of that was remotely successful was by Hector Zazou (RIP). Froom chose Dopamine as his title track — it's sung by Suzanne Vega, whom he also produced and married — but perhaps Noodletown would have been more descriptive?
[And no, I didn't manage to finish writing that in one sitting.]
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