9.
Alexander Spence – Oar
This album really set me on the course becoming a solo musician. Spence who recorded everything thing on Oar presented this weird creepy psych-blues world. It’s almost like a strange relic of the late 60s – the bizarre coda at the end of ‘War In Peace’ of Cream’s ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’ seems like a premonition of the decline of the 60’s utopic vision. Oar is dark, visionary and disturbed, and these are all the right ingredients for a unique LP.
Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Lord Spikeheart, Tom Ravenscroft
