Wot

2013 solo debut from the former Sic Alps man. Lyrically, Mike’s sharpened the lead for a less random line drawn in the sand – but he’s still alit on allusive trips, lost in crystal canyons, turning a phrase with an acid flick of the wrist-watch. In this life, there is a brooding pregnancy as he intones over some front-porch 21st-century j’accuse-tic blues with a blur of bygone, half-plugged, elegiac slow-mo Rock ‘n’ Roll rubbed in for good measure. Guitars intersecting in the manner of the old l