The Scott 4 Free Rock Orchestra – E-S-P album review

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Scott 4 made a bizarre but affecting hybrid of Krautrock and country. Now Stetson-clad frontman Scott Blixen has decided the world needs an album of eccentric p-funk drawing a squiggly line between Grace Jones, Trevor Jackson’s Playgroup and, umm, watery 1970s prog. It’s unconvincing but occasionally amusing, not least on ‘Indie’, wherein Blixen rhymes “Slowdive” with “Ben Folds Five” and “Kingmaker” with “Kula Shaker”. Only he knows why.

Charlie Ivens