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Says Hitchcock, “We just raided the vault to see what was left, or [what] I did…just to make it into the definitive Underwater Moonlight and put it in the context that it was in… And perhaps there’s that inevitable feeling that the further things are in history, the more important it is to excavate them. Back in 1990, only 10 years on, the first time we re-released it on disc in Britain [on Rykodisc], it didn’t seem that important to dig up all the rest...
...kicked off during last month’s SXSW, Austin’s mammoth film and music industry conference, and hit the Paradise in Boston March 26. The British band played a string of shows exclusively in the U.S. to promote the re-release of their 1980 masterpiece Underwater Moonlight. As anyone who’s heard the album can attest, the British band’s melodious, jangling assault produces thrills that could only be explosive live. Unfortunately, the Soft Boys’ third full-length album was also their last, and many have waited decades to hear...
...Underwater Moonlight producer Pat Collier] sidled up to me at a gig in about 1977, and he’d just got hold of this studio called Alaska, which has sort of its own special fungus and is under one of the bridges in Waterloo Station [in London]. He said, you might like to come try my studio, and a mere two years later we did,” says Hitchcock. Most of Moonlight (working title “That’s My Fish You’re Holding”) was recorded at Alaska for under...
...time of Moonlight, the Soft Boys had no idea they’d made a piece of history. Rew, who seems exceedingly modest of his own musical career but pleased with Hitchcock’s organization of the band and the album’s reception, says, “In 1980, I made the album blindly, really, without any thought as to how many people would like it or not like it.” Now he describes the Soft Boys as “the great love of my life.” As to whether...
...released two English albums. The first, Sunshine Moonlight, was released in 1995 and fared reasonably well, with 30,000 copies shipped to stores in America. The second, Nothing but Your Love, had its second single, Masquerade, released in early March. To lend a little more verve to his R. and B., he has roped in some heavyweight collaborators, such as Pras, The Roots, Angie Stone and Raphael Saadiq. The result: an album that is part basement-funk, part hip-hop?and all slammin' grooves. "You can smell the soul," he says, "and you can feel the temperature like...