JONATHAN WILSON

Eat The Worm BMG

GRM

Unique, must-hear musical fantasia from Roger Waters-approved psych maverick. Jonathan Wilson is notable for his recent guitar work with Roger Waters, but the Canadian-born LA resident’s own catalogue is abundant with gold. As a producer, he’s had plenty of ideas branded too off-the-wall by clients over the years, so he kept them himself, and developed them into this weirdly wonderful fantasia. Marzipan’s sad jangling piano and string/brass sections frame evocative lyrics about the narrator’s shifting relationship with the music scene and songwriting. Musical charlatanism is a theme: ‘WASPy rock’n’roll’ as Bonamossa, replete with Jew’s harp and industrial percussion, puts it. Another is the corrosive effect of time on culture (The Village Is Dead). Home truths ring true in Wilson’s double-tracked, husky voice, as he drops cool cultural references (the nutty,…

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