Pop review: Graham Coxon, The Spinning Top

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Coxon was always Blur's indie adult escent but here, on an album concerned with one man's life, he has metamorphosed into Nick Drake. And though the guitarist has flirted with folk before (notably on 2001's Crow Sit on Blood Tree) never has he done so with such inventiveness or, as Look Into the Light and In the Morning illustrate, such charm.

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Paul Mardles

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