I seem to be having one of those weeks where music doesn't get through to me. I hear it, but it doesn't move me. Always difficult to make the call, "It's not you, it's me", though, insecure by nature, I often gravitate to the "me" explanation.
I remember the first time I put this album on — it's yet another sponteneous gift from Theo Travis-collaborator Steve Lawson — and I thought, "this could be an album that I grow to love". Strangely, and sadly, it hasn't turned out that way. The more I listen, the more it seems to slip away out of my grasp.
It feels like a bits-and-pieces album to me. Of course the cover of See Emily Play is fun; it just feels like it doesn't 'sit' well with the rest. The longest track, Oblivionville swings in mood considerably: one moment it's reminiscent of King Crimson's Starless, and then it's dinner jazz. There's one piece that's just a duet between Theo and Robert Fripp, which I imagine is like a preparatory sketch for their album-length collaboration, though I still haven't heard that. My impression is that that duet and one of the other tracks to which Fripp contributes bear a stronger mark of his musical personality than of Theo's.
However, that may be just be because I've been listening to Fripp for 30 years and to Theo for less than three. And, like I say, I wouldn't put a lot of trust in my judgement right now.
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