It is no remark upon the quality of Different Every Time to say that it is not a ‘very best of’ Robert Wyatt with designs on the stockings of dads up and down the land - mind you, how long is it before John Lewis get the wrong end of the stick and get Ed Sheeran to cover Shipbuilding for their annual Christmas atrocity, as some little Timothy or other attempts to escape his parentally-inflicted mundane bourgeois suburbia with a box for a boat, a desperately tragic triumph of imagination over commerce that only the great middle-class equaliser can rectify? No, rather, this is an unflinching introduction to the breadth of his work from Soft Machine through Matching Mole through almost every fine solo LP to grace his name, and in chronological order at that. How often does a chronologically-ordered compilation of an artist’s work get better as it goes on?
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