Charles Hayward,drummer and voice of
This Heat and Camberwell Now, makes solo album that sounds not unlike
his previous groups,except Quiet Sun of course! Mainly because they
were built around his idiosyncratic drumming style,his identifiable
vocals,unless you mistake him for a more in yer face Robert Wyatt,
and his unimpeachable politics.
I especially like the damning critique
of humanity of the first track “Make Believe”,which is full of
profound couplets concerning the short sighted stupidity of human
'progress'; a “We're Burning our houses to keep ourselves warm”,
kind of thing.
The rest of the album keeps on with the
same style, a minimalist This Heat with everyone except Charles
Hayward faded out kind of sound. All that’s left are the drums and
the voice,with a few accompanying keyboards,and the odd session
bassist joining in,in an understated way naturally.
I've heard a few Charles Hayward
LP's,and this is the best one in my humbles.
A1 Make Believe 4:31
A2 Lets Pretend 3:01
A3 North Southwark 3:18
A4 Pretend To Believe 3:43
A5 Crystal Palace 7:38
B1 This Misunderstanding 2:44
B2 You And Me 3:37
B3 Time And Motion 3:18
B4 That Distant Light 4:19
B5 Australia 4:45
A4 Pretend To Believe 3:43
A5 Crystal Palace 7:38
B1 This Misunderstanding 2:44
B2 You And Me 3:37
B3 Time And Motion 3:18
B4 That Distant Light 4:19
B5 Australia 4:45
2 comments:
thank you for all This Heat stuff you have filled-in a lot of gaps here. Oakland CA
Cheers, unfortunately I have now ran out of This Heat related stuff, just the not so good Bullen project "Lifetones" to come.
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