Four decades since his last album proper in 1971, Bill Fay is now viewed as the great English singer-songwriter that completely got away. Fay’s much delayed difficult third album is overseen by pastoral guitarist for hire Matt Deighton, with guests including Fay’s cheerleader Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, whose debt to Fay is obvious on the slowly swelling Cosmic Concerto.
Life Is People moves inexorably forward with the surging gravitational pull of Fay’s best work. A set of self-effacing meditational mantras, their biblical tones disguised in piano balladeer threads, it sounds like the work of someone who never went away.
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Rudeness, Youtube
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Meninblack, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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