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Features Disc of the day
A. More
Flying Doesn’t Help
(Quango/Voiceprint, 1978)
British home-counties art-rocker makes new wave classic.
Minimalist composer and world-class egghead, Anthony Moore was one third of the avant-garde trio Slapp Happy. His second solo album, Flying Doesn’t Help, was credited to A. More, while the scratchy cover pic and exaggeratedly London-accented vocals suggested a seasoned muso hanging on to the coattails of punk. Calculated or not, it works. Slapp Happy aficionado John Peel played these tracks religiously in 1978, but many listeners must have thought they were hearing some box-fresh newcomer. Judy Get Down and Girl It’s Your Time should have become new wave anthems in the vein of Another Girl, Another Planet, Lucia sounds like John Cale fronting early Ultravox!, while War Just Us juggles jittery rhythms and punky shouting with ambient drones. A. More came and went, but Anthony Moore was last spotted writing lyrics for Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright, and sitting in on MOJO’s interview with same. When asked about Flying Doesn’t Help, a look of disbelief flashed across his face. Shortly after, he moved to Cologne and became a university professor. Perhaps we scared him off.
Mark Blake
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 20/10/2008
Further Listening
John Cale – Fear (Island, 1974)
Talking Heads – Talking Heads ’77 (Sire, 1977)
XTC – White Music (Virgin, 1978)
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