Jewels for Sophia
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| Studio album by Robyn Hitchcock | ||||
| Released | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, folk pop | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Robyn Hitchcock, Jon Brion, Pete Gerrald, Charlie Francis, Pat Collier | |||
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| Pitchfork Media | 8.9/10 link |
Jewels For Sophia is the thirteenth studio album by Robyn Hitchcock, released on Warner Records in 1999.
Since Respect (1993), the hitherto prolific Hitchcock had released just one full studio album (Moss Elixir in 1996), the rest of his recent output consisting largely of repackages and live recordings. Jewels For Sophia however contained a dozen tracks, only one of which ("No, I Don't Remember Guildford") had been recorded previously, and two extras not listed on the cover, and hidden away after a substantial pause following the album's "last" track.
Tracks include a paean to cheese in all its forms, with a sub-text of the global power struggle, and the quasi-nonsensical title number, whose lyric is rather pointed, in a similar vein to John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus".
The two hidden extras are "Mr. Tongs" and "Don't Talk to Me About Gene Hackman".
Hitchcock recorded sessions for the album in Los Angeles, California with guitarist Grant Lee Phillips and multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion; and in Seattle, Washington with guitarist Peter Buck and members of The Young Fresh Fellows. Kimberley Rew, Hitchcock's erstwhile collaborator in The Soft Boys, also appears on two songs, the first time in nearly 20 years the pair had recorded together.
All tracks composed by Robyn Hitchcock
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