Shadow Cat

Today's Music of the Day is Robyn Hitchcock's Shadow Cat. This album, which was released in 2004 or maybe 2008, because it's early in the day and I'm too lazy to check my facts, is something I downloaded COMPLETELY LEGALLY via eMusic. I did this primarily because Robyn has a fairly impressive discography and I am not familiar with any of it, for better or worse. Robyn has apparently been around and rocking since before I was old enough to give a crap about much of anything.

Shadow Cat is a fairly interesting work. It's largely based on Hitchcock playing guitar (maybe) and singing; his voice tends to be somewhat nasal but a little endearing all the same. The sound takes itself seriously here, mostly; a borderline Shatneresque cover of "The Wind Cries Mary" is quite tongue-in-cheek, though. The sound is a little old-fashioned, acoustic rock with a little of a folk influence, maybe?

(Side Note: I love that Blogspot or whatever this site is called now doesn't consider 'shatneresque' to be a misspelling.)

Overall, though, while I like Shadow Cat, I can't completely claim to love it. Hitchcock isn't bland, and varies his sound between songs, which I appreciate. He takes some chances here that should be commended even when they don't work out especially well. I don't know that this is the best of the music I've been listening to lately (Elvis Perkins, mind you) but it's probably good enough that I might give another Hitchcock album a shot. Shadow Cat isn't a bad place to start, but I feel as though there might be a better one.

In Other News:
This post was even less coherent than it reads.

The weekend was good though I basically managed to botch the idea of regular sleep pretty badly. As usual.