The Spinning Top
Blur guitarist again teams with producer Stephen Street for this, his seventh (!) solo album.
At some point in early 2008, before the first reconciliation curry was scoffed and the concept of a new Blur gig ticket seemed as likely as Calvin Harris eating a Solero without Tweeting about it, Graham Coxon sat in his Camden home, dug his fingers into his armrests and felt a monsoon of jealousy crash over him.
Seeming at peace with his former bandmates and life in general, Coxon delivers a wonderfully eccentric album that manages to be loose and coherent in equal measures. Simon Rueben reviews.
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Opening with a Nick Drake homage and proceeding in a folky vein, The Spinning Top finds Coxon having abandoned the pop-punk modes of his previous two solo albums in favour of a series of predominantly acoustic compositions.
After years of keeping indie kids on their toes with sprightly pop punk, Graham Coxon reaches for his trusty acoustic for his latest studio album.
<p>Never has Coxon flirted with folk with such inventiveness or such charm, says <strong>Paul Mardles</strong></p>
<p><strong>Digital, Brighton</strong><br />This is the venue worst suited to performing a subtle folk concept album in its entirety, says <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong></p>