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Robyn Hitchcock is one of pop’s great surrealists, an artist whose work has the appearance of familiarity yet none of its reassurance. While he often gets compared to poor old Syd Barrett (an acknowledged influence), this London native has closer relations outside the music world: Rene Magritte (logic-defying juxtapositions), Marcel Duchamp (dada absurdity), Edward Lear…

Jumping off a Chemical Imbalance flexidisc, Galaxie 500’s singsongy psychedelic “Oblivious” was so sweet and lo-fi that it might have been actual innocence instead of the Velvet Underground’s received ghost. Today, which features a rendition of Jonathan Richman’s “Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste,” confirmed it: this trio (based in New York but formed…

All of the Talking Heads have participated in extracurricular musical activities, and guitarist/keyboardist Harrison is no different — only less successful. (His platinum-packed production career, however, is an entirely different matter.) Recorded during the band’s 1981 sabbatical, The Red and the Black continues the pan-ethnic, cross-rhythmic musical explorations of Remain in Light — not a…