The Spinning Top

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Label: Transgressive Records
Release Date: 4th December

Another batch of Graham Coxon reissues and what a trip it's been going back to these records, spiky power pop one minute, Kinksian pop the next, picked folk another, post punk the next and each time absolutely slapping. 

After the spiky punk riffs and power pop melodies of Happiness in Magazines
and Love Travels At Illegal Speeds, Graham took a very different path for his
seventh solo album, 2009's The Spinning Top
Buying himself a vintage Martin acoustic guitar, he sat at his kitchen table for weeks
on end teaching himself the complex fingerpicking style of his folk guitarist heroes.
Featuring contributions from Robyn Hitchcock, Martin Carthy and late Pentangle
double bassist Danny Thompson, The Spinning Top is one of the most ambitious and
rich records of Graham's career, its bucolic atmosphere and narrative arc taking in a
huge variety of styles and moods.
"It was like going to the bloody gym for six months," recalls Graham with a laugh.
"These songs started appearing while I was sat at the table with a pot of tea, and my
love for things like Davy Graham, Bert Jansch and John Martyn started bubbling up."

Look Into The Light / This House /
In The Morning / If You Want Me / Perfect Love / Brave the Storm / Dead Bees /
Sorrow's Army / Caspian Sea / Home / Humble Man / Feel Alright / Far from
Everything / Tripping Over / November