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Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep

Rating: NNNN


Released in the UK last year but only now getting domestic release, Losing Sleep is Edwyn Collins’s first album since a brain hemorrhage put him in the hospital in 2005. Unable to play guitar but with his baritone voice intact, the former Orange Juice frontman delivers a surprisingly upbeat batch of songs that stands with the best of his recorded output.

It’s fun to hear the man who was aggressively pop during the punk era sound as belligerent as he does on What Is My Role?, which also features vocals by the Cribs’ Ryan Jarman. Collins enlisted a number of other friends, too, including guitar and songwriting by Johnny Marr and Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame.

He’s used what could have been a tragic turn of events as fuel for a vibrant, engaging and often playful record.

Top track: Come Tomorrow, Come Today

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