'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, 26)
'God makes them, then pairs them.' Then, unfortunately, they are 'split apart' (Unfortunately? Fortunately!) The too similar (talented) yet too different ones who met and then parted ways, choosing to do 'their thing' that is: Great British Music in all its forms and derivations (rock but also wave, pop but also soul, auteur folk as well as traditional, Beatles but also Patti Smith, Springsteen but also Prince...)
World Party - What Does It Mean Now?