Prospect recommends: the Graham Coxon Power Acoustic Ensemble
Nick Crowe
Graham Coxon: "crooked, flawed beauty"
While a member of Blur, multi-instrumentalist Graham Coxon released four solo albums, mixing garage rock, folk and heavy riffs with the band’s trademark power pop. Since his departure from Blur in 2002, Coxon has made three more records. The latest is grounded in a passion for English folk music, heavily influenced by Bert Jansch, and widely regarded as his best to date.
Recorded on analogue equipment and featuring more than its fair share of detuned acoustic instruments, The Spinning Top picks and strums its way through one man’s journey from birth to death, a mythological tale of love, loss and autobiographical intrigue. Aided by unsung folk heroes Robyn Hitchcock and Danny Thompson (who played double bass on Nick Drake’s records), Coxon pursues the crooked, flawed beauty which folk music is so good at containing, capturing it through a careful use of loose rhythms and wavering vocals.
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