COMICOPERA

"Dauntingly enough, his latest opus comes divided neatly into three 'acts' and is titled Comicopera, although, as Wyatt has been at pains to suggest in the run-up to its release, that's 'comic' as in 'concerned with human foibles' as opposed to 'side-splittingly hilarious'. It is also loosely speaking a political record - albeit one examined from the perspective of human interaction - which has at its heart a devastating one-two that laments the vicarious nature of modern warfare ('A Beautiful War') before drilling home its horrific consequences as a bombed-out civilian declares "you've planted all your everlasting hatred in my heart" ('Out Of The Blue'). After that the remainder of the album is sung in Spanish and Italian, as Wyatt sought to register his disgust with Anglo-American culture." www.drownedinsound.com