Shelley, Joan: The Spur (CD) Keith Hudson & Soul Syndicate They play free and wild

They play free and wild and relentlessly melodious

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Cocteau Twins’ fourth album

There’s an urgency in its repetitive dirge

Shelley, Joan: The Spur (CD) Keith Hudson & Soul Syndicate They play free and wildI want to explain these songs I want to leave them unexplained. Weve all been working with a lot of silence. I was tired from touring, remembering the long drives across the midwestern plains at dusk, against the pale yellow sky seeing the black outline of the horizon with the occasional silhouette of a little farmstead, a corn crib or windmill, beyond, a breaking society, beyond, the aches of a world in pain. A powerful tugging between apparently