(Max Hawkins' Daily Random for Spotify)
R. Stevie Moore – Delicate Tension (1979)
Celebrating the unpolished, the confidential, the defenseless and the crazed,
R. Stevie Moore is a great-grandfather of lo-fi and the wandering troubadour
of the American version of outsider music and hypnogogic pop. This album was his
first official studio album that was recorded for his uncle’s small record label and he’s
done over 400 records since this one. Beautifully sparse, rickety, outlooker songwriting
that’s gained the adulation of people like
Ariel Pink,
The Residents and
Chris Cutler.
This, and his album “
Phonography”, were good enough starts for him, so should it be for us.
