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Czars - Goodbye

The AGE has a review of the Czars new album - Goodbye (****) Sophie Best says: "From the soap-opera prelude - a melodramatic piano intro to the title track, which lurches from trip-hop poise to drama-charged, Todd Rundgren-esque epic and back again - Goodbye is a strange, surprising and lovely trip. There's something decidedly old-fashioned about this album, for all its modernity. In its grandiosity and passionate romanticism, Goodbye is akin to Rufus Wainwright and Richard Hawley's work, with echoes of Roy Orbison, ELO, the Flaming Lips and Grandaddy"

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Jim Marquis said…
Nice to find somebody who feels the same way about Todd that I do.

Have you heard about any new production work he's doing lately?

I was curious what you think of him as a producer. Do you have a favorite he's done for other folks?

I loved the 12 Rods cd and actually thought it might
be a hit but that wasn't to be...
6:33 PM
Scott said…
Thanks for the comment. Fav Todd productions? Hmmm. Most "Todd-like" is probably XTC's - Skylarking, great record, although TPOH's debut album - Love Junk or the Jill Sobule album are, I think, his best production work.

He's quiet on that front at moment - and has been since 12 Rods/Splender/Bad Religon burst of activity - due to doing his own thing again.
1:17 AM
Jim Marquis said…
I love Skylarking. I've always thought it was interesting one of XTC's most successful efforts would come out of a collaboration by two artists who wanted to kill each other.

Going further back I also really liked "Guitars and Women" by Rick Derringer. Some songs almost sound like they came straight off a Utopia album.
3:58 AM
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