Pop/Rock - Enigmatic alt-pop veteran Robyn Hitchcock returns for another satisfying set of brilliantly conceived, eloquently executed songs. "The title refers to two long nights spent in Oslo in 1982 by Morris Windsor and myself with some friends," Hitchcock says of Goodnight Oslo, his latest project ace combo the Venus 3, a band that includes R.E.M. vets Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin. "The album, in part, celebrates the ghosts of the smoke age, and the various ways they were wrecked but still sailed on. That's the way it is with humans. You could call it the comfort of doom. Goodnight Oslo is a vortex that I am still leaving."

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"Stabbing horns from compatriot Terry Edwards swim alongside gorgeous harmonies throughout this 10-track snapshot of Hitchcock's version of pop music in a perfect world. Goodnight Oslo features guest vocalists Colin Meloy, Sean Nelson and Morris Windsor who help Robyn sing his way through a dreamy remembrance of 16 years of intoxication. An album of nearly unwavering positivity, Goodnight Oslo shines down with the beautiful "I'm Falling" and the beatific "Up to Our Nex," the latter written for the soundtrack to the stirring Jonathan Demme film Rachel Getting Married. A new era in an already fabled career, Robyn's latest work strengthens the pull of his lunar-like gravity and adds yet another chapter to the myth of one of rock music's most influential undercurrents."

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