The 1980 Listening Post - Peter Hammill - A Black Box

Peter Hammill - A Black Box

#60

1980 Housekeeping

Peter Hammill

A Black Box

Genre: Experimental Rock Indulgence

2.25 out of 5

I don’t have much to say about Hammil. He never fails to disappoint me, despite the reputation of Van Der Graff Generator. On this one he comes across as a David Bowie disciple who heard Peter Gabriel’s solo work and decided he wanted to play in that arena as well, only no one else wanted to play with him so he did all the work himself. This, of course, means that there was no one to edit him, arrange him, help him or just say, “Peter, Petey, what in the actual fuck are you trying to say here?”

To which he would have gurgled something about writing a stage show that no one would ever see and had no book or story. 

There. I guess I had a wee bit to say. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-black-box/714570675