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Old Rottenhat

~ Robert Wyatt
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (17 Nov 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Domino
  • ASIN: B001F9Y27C
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 122,772 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Like hearing Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds or Steve Reich's 18 Musicians for the first time, Robert Wyatt's most moving and fully realised album takes your breath away with its beauty and grace. A marriage of stark simplicity and beguiling subtleties, Old Rottenhat is Wyatt's minimalist masterpiece. His melancholy voice and ethereal keyboards move from the overtly political "East Timor" and "United States of Amnesia" to the plaintively personal "P.L.A. (Poor Little Alfie)," an ode to Wyatt's wife that conveys more in two lines than most songs manage in four verses. If you buy just one album by this former Soft Machine and Matching Mole frontman (hey, if you buy just one CD ever), this should do the trick. --Billy Grenier

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4.0 out of 5 stars Classic no-frills Wyatt, 4 Nov 2001
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This review is from: Old Rottenhat (Audio CD)
While Wyatt's early albums featured lush arrangements and guest musicians, by the mid eighties he had consolidated into a one man production house, producing two albums with just himself playing keyboards, drums and vocals and both are fine pieces of work. Rottenhat is quite approachable with songs following short formats while retaining the air of experiment mixed with sincerity that Wyatt fans so love. Buy it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good songs but something's missing, 17 Dec 2008
By Bruce Langridge (West Wales) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Old Rottenhat (Audio CD)
Robert Wyatt is, and has always been, a great songwriter and a distinctive singer capable of deliverings lyrics with great humour, deep sadness, beauty, biting political irony... whatever is required. It's also a very affected voice which can annoy.
This album, recorded in 1985 and played entirely by himself, has all these qualities. But, for me, the lack of interplay between musicians, renders some of his great tunes more shallow than they deserve. Each track can sound somewhat similar and so nothing stands out - a real shame. But if you like other work by Robert Wyatt,you'll probaly still like this.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Little RED recording, 7 Aug 2008
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Old Rottenhat (Audio CD)
As a fan of the following,

Robert Wyatt's original visions from the wonderful grupo SOFT MACHINE

Signore Wyatt's sense of humor

his decided progressive politics, and thoughtful worldview

his emotive voice

his exotic and crazylouco world view

(on different recordings) that he can sing in a good italian and spanish!

THis cd will not produce any sparks, it is quietly forceful, and even as Signore Wyatt uses drum machine and is at best a rudementary pianista, these compositions stand out for their beauty and for the words, which are very sly and cynical, in the tipical english way.

Recommended, as are ALL Robert Wyatt , from Soft Machine and Matching Mole grupos to the numerous solo efforts.

One cannot be disappointed when a músico makes a 5 star effort!



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