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Like John Foxx's recent A Secret Life album with Steve Jansen (ex-Japan), his collaboration with Robin Guthrie was an idea that began when the pair performed at a Harold Budd concert in May 2005. Layers of echoes and reverberations are explored on Mirrorball, so that Guthrie's unique playing merges with abstract, often improvised vocals --a style which Foxx has explored on his own Cathedral Oceans albums.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Just heard this album today and it has a great range of tracks - from the European summer pop of Estrellita, to the almost French-sounding My Life As An Echo and magnificent The Perfect Line. Fantastic stuff.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Although I quite like some of John Foxx's Cathedral Oceans albums, which another reviewer has mentioned, I've never been able to get into them like I have already with Mirrorball. I find them a bit same-y at times whereas this Foxx/Guthrie material is more open, and varied - there are songs (Estrellita, Sunshower) that share similar territory to the Cocteau Twins, more ambient-leaning tracks (Ultramarine) and I guess you could call them spiritual ballads (Mirrorball, The Perfect Line, Empire Skyline) - not religious, but sharing some of the same life-affirming spirit of bands such as Doves or even the Verve. Big songs basically. And one very lovely instrumental, My Life As An Echo, which left me wanting more of that sort of material. For me it's the best thing Foxx has done in years and it's inspired to give some of Guthrie's solo work a listen too.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a strange record in some ways. I can understand why some listeners find it rather 'noodly' and indulgent. But most of it is really, really beautiful - I love Estrellita and the piano track My Life As An Echo. But also the quiet, spectral Ultramarine is another beauty - and alongside these, there's some inspiring about the anthemic quality of Empire Skyline and The Perfect Line. It's very European sounding - a summer haze seems to glow around it and at the moment I am finding that I'm going back to it again and again. Flawed, not perfect, but that's maybe part of his charm?
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Gorgeous escapism
I've been hearing about this album for a while now - finally decided to buy it and I wasn't disappointed. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2009 by Carlton Redd
Second Best?
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Summer beauty
'Estrellita' is a beautiful song. Should've been a single. Listening to the album yesterday in the sunshine, the album sounded
lovely. I definitely recommend it.
lovely. I definitely recommend it.
Published on 25 May 2009 by Kate Best
Midnight Cowboy rip-off
Sorry all you Foxx fans but "Estrellita" is just a rip-off of the title music from the 1960's film "Midnight Cowboy". Read more
Published on 20 May 2009 by P. Long
Foxx triumphant
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Published on 12 May 2009 by birdsong
Not shiny enough
The combination of these two musicians seems propitious, but...alas. It's the most uninspiring music I've heard in a while. Read more
Published on 11 May 2009 by Curmudgeon
New idea's please
John Foxx's latest see's him team up with the multi-talented Robin Guthrie formerly of the Cocteau twins. Read more
Published on 1 May 2009 by Mr. David C. Halliday
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