This second collaboration between Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip is, like the John DeLorean-themed Stainless Style, another biographical concept album, this one based on events in the life of left-wing Italian Giangiacomo Feltrinelli who published The Leopard and Doctor Zhivago.
Sadly, the decision to tell Feltrinelli's story in the same period technopop music as Stainless Style sabotages its impact: the analogue synth lines are sleek,but I can't help thinking that the almost quintessential “guilty pleasures” Seventies pop-luxe sound surely fails to reflect the varied topography of this life.
Download: The Jaguar; Dr. Zhivago; The Leopard
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