Considering that the albums collected on I Wanna Go Backwards have been reissued two or three times already, with extra material added each time, it might seem hard to justify this new box set. But English folk-psychedelic songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has carefully combed through his archives, adding 20 previously unreleased songs and culling a few weaker ones …
Published as part of The A.V. Club’s “Permanent Records” feature, which looked back at classic albums that we’d loved for years. The context: After Robyn Hitchcock’s horrible experience on the bloated, big-budget sessions for his second solo album, Groovy Decay—still the weakest album of his career, and one he says he’s never listened to—the former Soft …