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I remember reading somewhere that at the end of the Nineties, two of my idols - Andy Partridge of XTC and Martin Newell - used to meet up regularly in a shed at the bottom of Andy's garden.
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Usually you'd keep your lawnmower in there, a garden fork & a rake. But Andy had created a little home studio where the two English geniuses could give free rein to their musical experimentation. And so my mind immediately began to wander (...)
and imagine ground-breaking sessions with the two musicians, Great British Psychadelia with Kevin Ayers as the mystery guest, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci popping over for a cup of tea... Ahhhhh!!
Unfortunately nothing came of the shed-at-the-bottom-of-the-garden sessions, no albums, no recordings.
I was just beginning to despair, when Cantharide arrived on Pop Only Knows and I could have sworn they were Andy & Martin's secret partners: their music, delicious psychadelic anglo-pop, could have come straight out of those imaginary sessions. What's more, Cantharide have the same humour, the same irony as Martin Newell, and in that they are rare, and truly great.
Their Dark Side of the Wood (what a title!!) is here.
Alexandre Oudart
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