Robyn Hitchcock-Luxor (2003)
Artist: Robyn Hitchcock
Title: Luxor
Label: Editions PAF!
Format: CD
Cat #: PAF 004
Year of Release: 2003
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2003
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+
Sell Date: 7/28/25
Sell Price: $5.82
Discogs Last Sold: 2/21/25 NM/NM $9.99
Low: $3.00
Median: $8.75
Average: $9.38
High: $20.00
Current low price: $8.00
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7
Have/Want: 270/34
Where: Las Vegas, NV
Time it took to sell: 15 years
Where and When Bought: internet used late aughts
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+
Sad To See It Go: No
I've written before in the links below about the great Hitchcock complete catalog update toward the end of the 2000's. Luxor from 2003 was certainly one of those titles. Unfortunately, it was too much titles of the same artist at once and this album fell by the wayside. I can't remember even giving it a token listen although I probably threw it in my 300-CD carousel player I had at the time with the intention to hear it at least at random with everything else.
So, as these titles have trickled out the door over the years, I've been able to focus on them as individual works. Luxor is like a brand-new record to me. I have no recollection of any of these songs live, although the TITLE "The Idea Of You" I like quite a bit. I could have sworn I heard hm play that or maybe I just thought of the phrase on my own one day or saw it somewhere else. "Indonia" and the album closer "Solpadeine" are the two that have shown up the most over the years. "Idonia" was the next big standout for me with its constant BOYS refrain. If you take a look at the 8 songs of the 13 someone reported he played live, they have shown up by themselves as a one off here and there over a 22-year span. Robyn just has so many releases at this point, well past 30 especially with his bands, that even the biggest fanatic might lose track.
Upon relisten the song "One L" is my favorite. It is about a MIchele (presumably that is the one L he is talking about). I guess this time he had a title as good as the song. The title track "Luxor" or really any of these songs sounds like something that Robyn could break out at any of his stripped-down shows, but nobody has given any evidence of it being performed on setlist. That day could come and go without me knowing at some private event or performance somewhere on this earth.
This is a pretty sparse album issued on an independent label in the UK. Robyn sings, plays guitar and sometimes bass. Jon Biron shows up to play a keyboard on "You Remind Me Of You." The man doesn't really make any bad music, it comes down, like most things, to the commitment of the listener to absorb the material.
It's taken 22 years, but I have absorbed Luxor on my own time.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
Robyn Hitchcock @ City Winery, New York, NY 10/30/24
Sex, Food, Death...& Tarantulas (2007)
Storefront Hitchcock-Soundtrack From The Jonathan Demme Picture (1998)
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