About this product

Product Identifiers

Record LabelFire America, Fiam

UPC0809236145024

eBay Product ID (ePID)9046039495

Product Key Features

Release Year2017

FormatCD

GenreRock

ArtistBevis Frond

Release TitleSon of Walter

Dimensions

Item Height0.20 in

Item Weight0.09 lb

Item Length5.14 in

Item Width5.00 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Plastic Elvis 1.2 Beautiful Sister 1.3 Red Hair 1.4 You Saw Me Coming (But You Won't See Me Go) 1.5 Barking or False Point Blues 1.6 Forgiven 1.7 All Hope Is Gone with You Away 1.8 Dead Man Sitting on a Train 1.9 It's Not Like You 1.10 Garden Aeroplane Trap 1.11 Drivenaway 1.12 Raining on TV 1.13 Requiem 1.14 Winner's Way 1.15 Goodnight from the Band

NotesDigitally remastered edition of the 15th album from the British indie psych outfit. When the sleeve of The Bevis Frond's Son Of Walter arrived circa 1996 it was a mystery. The title is scratched on a window overlooking an Islington block of flats, the sunset is distorted. Today it would be the view from a banging grime pirate radio station. Back then, it was one man locked in his bedroom with too many ideas and too many instruments (and a Portastudio). "Don't ask why, but for this album I decided to make the long-awaited(?) return to the style of the first few BF records. So it's back to the home recording facilities, and back to being the only person involved. So it's definitely worse than the recent stuff. (Feel free to disagree)," Frond mainman and, indeed the only Frond left standing on this opus, reasoned on the sleevenotes. So, what is it all about? The trademark folk strum with multi-harmonies is there. There's a slight nod to a country-ish CSN&Y thing, but that's only for four bars. Who remembers that when there is the colossal 'Garden Aeroplane Trap', a proper wig out at 12 minutes 20. Elsewhere we have the kind of timeless psyche pop that people with ears really love, two songs that namecheck Elvis and a song about a dead man on a train. That was London in the late '90s. Hey, rock 'n' roll.