The March edition of Mojo contains a review of Love Cannot Bear. The three star review was written by Captain Beefheart biographer Mike Barnes and it goes like this…
When Robert fripp began making ambient music with Brian Eno on No Pussyfooting back in 1973, his Les Paul was looped through two Revox reel-to-reels. But for the last decade he has used a digital delay and MIDI set-up giving his guitar a smooth, synthetic string sound. He has produced some beautiful music this way, especially A Blessing Of Tears from ’95 which commemorated his mother’s death. That the highlight of this set is Easter Sunday, an anomalous tape loop piece from 1983 with flamenco-like overdubs and a buzzing, twisting solo, makes one wonder how much creative mileage is left in his current creative approach. Fripp’s bizarre vocodered recitations on the title track usher in a rare example of his unique lead lines snaking across this gently ebbing, airbrushed backdrop, but overall the more recent pieces are virtually interchangeable – similarly paced and differing only subtly in mood.
My thanks to Enigmatic Simon for the heads up on this one.
