JACK HUES AND THE QUARTET

Epigonal Quark DAWN CHORUS RECORDS

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Celebrating Canterbury, post-rock classics and more. The best cover versions always find jumping-off points to encourage inspiration and exploration. By that measure this collaboration between Wang Chung’s Jack Hues, and members of Syd Arthur and Led Bib, is a winner. This 2019 live recording teases out the connective elements within an admirably diverse set. Their cover of Beck’s Nobody’s Fault But My Own is chilled but there’s no nodding off as lacerating solos keep things sharp. Sawtooth guitar bites down deep into the bones of Talk Talk’s Myrrhman to find a lilting, spectral blues looming into being. There’s the wistful haze of Robert Wyatt’s Sea Song, a throbbing rendition of Soft Machine’s Facelift, and a sprightly motorik surge through of an instrument-alonly take on Radiohead’s Weird Fishes/Arpeggi; it’s exceptionally well…

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