Todd is God

Todd gets a passing mention in a review of new Taylor Locke album - Time Stands Still. According to Scottish Daily Express today the influences included The Beatles and The Cars. "But there is also a Laurel Canyon vibe going on, especially on breezy opener Burbank Woman, which has a Jackson Browne/Todd Rundgren feel to it."

Pitchfork has details about the Runddans album including some snippets behind a Todd interview explaining how it came about. Sounds like a throw back to 70s experimental Todd. Billed as a "spiritual magnum opus," it is one single (sub divided) track that spans 39 minutes, and is said to fuse Rundgren's "trippy. blue-eyed soul" with Lindstrom's "disco epics" and Nikolaisen's "studio trickery" to result in a "cosmic mix of soul, synth, pop, and disco". Going to be interesting this one.

All Music reviews the new Todd album , and awards it three and a half stars (out of five). "[I]t's perched at a point between the past and the present, protest and satire, and that inscrutability is often where Rundgren does interesting work."

" Global is essentially what I learned making State , merged with my more traditional approaches to songwriting and album production." Vintage Rock talks to Todd about the new album and the writing process. Good interview. Todd points to a couple of his favourite album:  "I think two of the best records of my career came out of that period, Nearly Human and 2nd Wind. Those two records I am especially fond of." Meanwhile, Argentinian publication Pagina/12 has an brief interview with Todd too (think done a while back)

British singer Rumer, who has previously covered Todd's 'Be Nice to Me' , is currently doing a version of 'Love is the Answer' in her live set.