Sixty this month, Hitchcock has abandoned the toy town imagery of his ever maturing acid-pop for personal tones, though pterodactyls still stalk the dark skies of Harry’s Song.
He remains possessed of an effortlessly psychedelic voice, somewhere between John Lennon, a Cambridge don and a woodland shaman, proceeding directly from his septum to your cerebellum.
The apparently immortal cult figure’s reliably gem-sprinkled 24th album thankfully fails to address his significant birthday, other than the closing End Of Time, a lazily uncoiling ballad bolstered by big beats and a mantric coda.
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph