This is an amazing chronicle of Robyn Hitchcock's post-punk, pysch-rock, pre-Egyptians band that deserves some attention. The first album includes the Underwater MoonlightM(1980) album remastered. The more oblique and jagged stylings of their debut ('A Can of Bees') are left behind in favor of a punchy, hopped-up Byrds sound that perfectly complements Robyn Hitchcock's surreal imagery. This is the document that belatedly alerted the world to a great band. Unable to secure a release in the United States, T...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The first new album in 20 years from Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys, featuring the classic lineup of Kimberley Rew, Matthew Seligman and Morris Windsor. The Soft Boys have turned out to be one of the most influential bands in shaping contemporary alternative music, though few are completely familiar with the quirky band's legacy. Formed in Cambridge, England in 1976 on the heels of the punk revolution, the Soft Boys eschewed the three-chord nihilism of punk and opted for a crude version of psy...   [ read more ]

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If pop music history teaches us anything, it's that reunions of once-great bands are a dicey prospect at best, and for every act like The Buzzcocks who were able to come back at full strength, there are two or three that never should have bothered, for their own good as well as ours(Jefferson Airplane, The Sonics, The Misfits, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Band, The Who from 1990 onward -- the list goes on). In 2001, The Soft Boys' reunion tour (prompted by the augmented re-release of their classic U...   [ read more ]

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