Reigning Sound The Bells

Besides Mick Collins, another beautiful bastard Devil-Wizard of the genre is Greg - Oblivians - Cartwright. Legendary with the Oblivians, immense with the Compulsive Gamblers, and superb with this magnificent creature of his.

With Too Much Guitar you say to yourself, “okay, he made the masterpiece album with his Reigning Sound,” and instead this cursed bastard?! He lets half a decade pass and then throws you a wonderful album, a “moody & melancholic” - his words - side of the Oblivians sound. You can’t define it… it takes you back to your adolescence with sounds full of sixties moods, R&B, soul but also imbued with that traditional American sound…
And with that bastard voice, winking… in spite of the 17 octaves of the “great singer” of which I couldn’t care less… that animates this splendid bastard…