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Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians: Luminous Groove

Another trip inside the British psych-rocker’s vaultIn the early ’80s, a record-store clerk in a sleepy Southern college town discovered Robyn Hitchcock via the English singer/songwriter’s band The Soft Boys. While a product of the punk era, The Soft Boys trafficked in a deeply unfashionable blend of psychedelia and jangly ’60s-style pop. Hitchcock, the band’s lyricist, sidestepped both politics and rote boy/girl pop narratives, opting instead for cracked, surrealist metaphors that were equal parts Syd Barrett’s twee madness and Bob Dylan’s stream-of-consciousness wordplay—all delivered with a voice like a loopier John Lennon....  read more