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The Animals Film
Robert Wyatt
1982
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FACELIFT
- Issue fourteen - June 1995
Robert Wyatt - The Animals Film
Rough Trade R3172
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Quite the strangest thing Robert Wyatt has ever done. This mini-album (clocking in at around 20 minutes) formed the musical backdrop to a film about cruelty to animals (particularly in the meat trade) which was apparently quite harrowing to watch.
Fittingly, the album of this film is quite difficult to listen to. A series of fiddly, odd keyboard pieces, with few hook-ins, make this quite unlike any other Wyatt release. Entirely instrumental: the synths and effects Wyatt appears to be using are very much early Eighties, with sounds as important as the music they tend to hide.
Wyatt adds wordless scats to one section only and there is little percussion either, or certainly none that's not warped out of recognition. There's occasional the appealing naked feel that piano and keyboards added to 'A Short Break', but these passages tend to be short, and even those rarely particularly accessible.
One for the completist, for those who sat through the film, and for those with a commitment to animal rights. And that's about all I can say really.
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