BOBBY CONN - King For A Day reviews
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| DustedMagazine |
Fascinating, perplexing, sometimes off-putting but more often funny, Bobby Conn continues to chart a very unusual path through contemporary music. His King for a Day, the sixth solo album following the break-up of the late-'80s Conducent, is, as always, something of a concept piece, with several cuts aimed squarely at celebrity culture....full text |
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| Guardian |
| The impish Bobby Conn's latest concept album is a homage to the cult of celebrity. Conceived as a soundtrack, it's like Fame: The Movie as envisioned by Ken Russell, a strange but picturesque vision of hair-metal guitars, birdsong, lyrics sung in Latin and songs about toe-sucking....full text |
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| The Independent |
| When your last album (2004's The Homeland) has used the most excessive strains of Seventies glam-rock and prog-metal to deliver a camp satire on Bush's presidency, any follow-up would have to be a move towards comparative normalcy. Or so you'd think. But not Bobby Conn, a man whose musical ideas far outreach the furthest fringes of commercial potential. For "Vanitas", the eight-minute opening track to King For A Day, he's blended together chamber-jazz noodling, birdsong and loud atonal lead guitar - oh, and a choir singing in biblical Latin - into a grand musical folly every bit the equal of The Homeland....full text |
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