Jumble Hole Clough: 25 Odd Songs

Avant-garde musician Colin Robinson has made the 50th album of his one-man project Jumble Hole Clough a greatest hits one, 25 Odd Songs. He picked the more or less accessible ones - cherry picking the instrumental, ambient, looping and generative pieces might happen at some point in the distant future.

Off-kilter rockers like 40 Thieves (from L'agent leve son baton blanc), the gnarly King Crimsonesque Twilight of The Mods (from Bela Lugosi's Dad) and the skewed rhythms and laconic worldplay of John Wayne is Big Wobbulator (from Bats Tidied Up Heliport) made the cut. The unitiated should set aside 90 minutes and let the album play as a whole. After that, there are two possibilities: being hooked and wanting more, or running for the hills, where Robinson will find you eventually and convince you to have another go to wander around into his musical maze.

25 Odd Songs is a self-released album. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.

Tracks:

1. From a Carwash in Caerphilly
2. The Erik Satie Toga Party
3. Here Come The Bears!
4. A Big Rusty Bin
5. 40 Thieves
6. Occasionally Mordred
7. Friday 13th Part 11 - Let's Wriggle
8. Jackal Sequin Song
9. John Wayne is Big Wobbulator
10. Afternoon in Morningside
11. Mechanically Marginate
12. You're filling the back of my car with riot shields
13. Fizzy Spiders Broke My Shehnai
14. 202 Days
15. Twilight of The Mods
16. Smother
17. Cocoa Palace Keeper (you nearly got your Christmas present early)
18. Glimpse
19. 50-foot Pinky & Perky
20. Flyswatter
21. Oldham lasses with NHS glasses
22. Building a bridge to you from the roof of a disused supermarket in Budapest
23. Jackfield and Bedlam
24. I reached into the chimney and pulled out a sewing machine (25th October 1415)
25. Sympathy for the Breville

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