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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World Without End, Twitter
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Brighton Argus
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Mearecate, Youtube
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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98rosjon, Twitter
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Rudeness, Youtube