'Tales From Monographic Oceans': a spontaneous journey through a stretch of sea, cutting through the isthmuses of some discographies
(Mike Scott/Waterboys vs. Karl Wallinger/World Party 46, 18)
'God makes them and then pairs them up'. Then, unfortunately, they 'break up' (Unfortunately? Fortunately!) The too similar (talented) but too different who met and then parted ways, choosing to do 'their own thing,' namely: Great British Music in all its forms and derivations (rock but also wave, pop but also soul, authorial folk but also traditional, Beatles but also Patti Smith, Springsteen but also Prince...)
World Party - All I Gave