'Tales From Monographic Oceans': a spontaneous journey across a stretch of sea, cutting through the isthmuses of certain discographies
(Mike Scott/Waterboys vs. Karl Wallinger/World Party 46, 28)
'God makes them, then pairs them up.' Then, unfortunately, he 'breaks them apart' (Unfortunately? Fortunately!) The too similar (good) yet too different who met and then separated, choosing to do 'their own thing', that is: Great British Music in all its forms and derivatives (rock but also wave, pop but also soul, authorial folk but also traditional, Beatles but also Patti Smith, Springsteen but also Prince...)
Santa Barbara