Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - I-Beam, San Francisco, California, November 17, 1986

Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - I-Beam, San Francisco, California, November 17, 1986A recent Robyn Hitchcock substack post alerted me to the fact that Element of Light — Robyn’s second LP with the Egyptians — hit the 40 year mark sometime this fall. An anniversary worth celebrating … get me going and I’d probably be willing to make an argument for EoL as One of the Very Best Albums of the 1980s. The songs, the sheen, the guitars! It’s all just perfect, one luminous groove after another. Robyn Says: The songs [on Element of Light] were about life in my usual sphere, mostly location-inspired: hanging out in early-1970s Winchester, a reverie of sea creatures in a Northern English seaside town, my favourite beach on the Isle of Wight, mythical Los Angeles, a photo of three guys sharing a bathtub in 1965 New York that I stumbled across in a bodybuilding magazine, Ronald Reagan (who at the time was the most villainous president we could conceive of) making a speech in a West German…

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