Melodic British eccentric Robyn Hitchock plays the World Cafe Live tonight, focusing on his much loved 1984 album I Often Dream Of Trains, which was re-issued last year. The video for the album's title cut is below. Underneath that is the stop motion animation clip for "The Man With The Lightbulb Head," which is not on that album, but worth hoping he'll do. Sometimes Hitchock's Lewis Caroll-Syd Barrett whimsical psychedelia can be forced, but at his best his music is not just clever, but haunting. He's also the skinny gray haired guy in the wedding band in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, and you can hear "Up To Our Nex," from that soundtrack here.
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