CMJ New Music Report
November 15, 1985 (Issue 80)
Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians
Gotta Let This Hen Out!
Turn up your stereo and listen to The Higsons as you follow Robyn Hitchcock down an emotionally packed yet creatively absurd musical path originally tried by Syd Barrett. One look at the cover art on this new live record will help give those unindoctrinated into Mr. Hitchcock's work an idea as to the rich, colorful direction that his music takes. Gotta Let This Hen Out! is a good retrospective of Robyn Hitchcock's career, reaching back to his days as a Soft Boy for a modern version of "Kingdom Of Love" and including some great live versions of some of his own classics. With strong renditions of the college-radio classics "America", "Heaven", and "Listening To The Higsons"; and neat performances of "The Cars She Used To Drive", "My Wife And My Dead Wife", and "The Face Of Death"; Gotta Let This Hen Out! captures the essence of the live show of one of the principal creative geniuses of the new psychedelic revival.
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