Andy Bell - Flicker Artist_Holy Other

Andy Bell - Flicker Artist_Holy OtherFlicker is the second album from Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell. This 18 track double album finds Andy moving towards classic songwriting, notably on the reflective lead single "Something Like Love", the strident harmonies of "World of Echo", the joyous refracted loops of "Jenny Holzer B. Goode" and the fuzz laden late 60s balladeering of "Love Is The Frequency". Stylistically, the four sides of Flicker take in everything from modern

tours solo and had released some early versions of a few songs on a split with fellow Detroit musician Stef Chura

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Bureau B ultimately invited him to record an album with this basic and yet astoundingly effective set-up

Hughes is blessed with the kind of inexorable ardor for refreshing and sharpening his muse that is common to expert sculptors of elegant pop music

We pay our respects to their Elders

Released in 1989

With Manchester's Fletcher Moss Park especially inspiring

they are mercurial creatures

and much of the music was written during lockdown

Not previously released on vinyl

revealing its ideas slowly

Noise restrictions also led to more use of single