'Tales From Monographic Oceans': a spontaneous journey through a stretch of sea, cutting across the isthmuses of some discographies
(Mike Scott/Waterboys vs. Karl Wallinger/World Party 46, 6)
'God makes them and then pairs them up.' Then, unfortunately, they 'split apart' (Unfortunately? Luckily!) The too similar (talented) yet too different who met and then separated, choosing to do 'their own thing'—that is: Great British Music in all its forms and derivations (rock but also wave, pop but also soul, singer-songwriter folk but also traditional, Beatles but also Patti Smith, Springsteen but also Prince...)
It Can Be Beautiful (Sometimes)