RFI: Bill Fay

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And someone needs to reissue that From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock comp. Upthread someone noted that the CD was going for over a $100, now it’s going for close to $500!

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link

I just heard Time of the Last Persecution recently. His voice sounds to me more like a very glum Ian Hunter than Dylan.

The whole record has a weird, grey, bleak numbed-out feel that I associate more with post-punk than anything else from 1970. The plain lucidity of the production looks forward to Pere Ubu or the early Mekons that I have heard (even of nothing else is similar) instead of singer-songwriter records of the time.

Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link

Never heard of the comp jon mentions! o_O

Probably something for a new thread, but Bill Fay is one of the very few artists I both love and find it ex-tre-me-ly hard to listen to, as it reduces me to a mess. Really have to go slow and take small portions, because it's just too beautiful and it hurts too much.

A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link


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