PHILIP SELWAY - Strange Dance LP outsider castanets and special effects

castanets and special effects

bits of choppy new-wave guitar and a whole lot of appealingly clunky pop heaviness that brings to mind nothing so much as an extremely low-budget Kiss

as well as Doherty's own band

In this parsing of terms

But always the arc of Atramentus remains bound to the tumultuous melancholy and guttural immensity of extreme doom

PHILIP SELWAY - Strange Dance LP outsider castanets and special effectsIncludes the singles "Strange Dance" and "Check For Signs Of Life". Art pop solidity guides Philip Selway through shimmering chamber pop style that has a handful of surprises. Strange indeed. Philip Selway, the Radiohead man with the post Thom Yorke collaborating plan, is charting his own course. Like a fearless explorer armed with decades of experience and a grappling hook made of character references from bandmates, Selway explores his own self