'Tales From Monographic Oceans': a free-spirited journey through a stretch of sea, cutting across the isthmuses of some discographies
(Mike Scott/Waterboys vs. Karl Wallinger/World Party 46, 25)
'God makes them and then pairs them'. Then, unfortunately, he 'splits them' (Unfortunately? Luckily!) The too-similar (talented) but too-different artists who met and then parted ways, 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, authorial folk but also traditional, Beatles but also Patti Smith, Springsteen but also Prince...)
Mad as the Mist and Snow