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Losing Sleep

Edwyn Collins

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A leading member of the seminal Scottish pop group, Orange Juice, Edwyn Collins has gone through personal hell and back to continue making music that is adventurous and heartfelt. In 2005, Collins suffered several brain hemorrhages that left him unable to walk and talk. Through rigorous physical therapy, Collins regained enough of himself to finish 2007’s Home Again and to create Losing Sleep from the ground up. His voice is understandably more constrained these days. It’s taken on an eeriness akin to the ghost chants of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. The manic chase of “Do It Again” is a powerful piece of angular pop where the beat shifts the weight of the melody with ease. Every track is worthy, with high honors awarded to “Losing Sleep”, “Humble”, “Come Tomorrow, Come Today”, “It Dawns On Me” and “All My Days”. The autobiographical nature of the tunes makes things even more entrancing. Johnny Marr, Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame” and Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy are among the guests.

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Brilliant

I downloaded this album this morning and have played it pretty much continuously throughout the day!
Really started to get into it on the second play.
The Stand out track is 'It dawns on me' (should be a single!)
Just brought a ticket for the Brighton gig as well!
Cheers Edwyn, another great record!

New listeners start here...

Any album released after a creative gap is likely to be difficult - with seemingly inevitable comparisons with the past. But not for me as Edwyn's past was something I'd missed - except for the unmissable "Girl like you".

So I waited for this new album to discover the present. Three days of listening convinced me - this is good - very good. Then panic set in as I headed to hear it live on the South Bank.

No need! This is not some over engineered studio album that cannot be performed. On stage he is even better. So buy it - enjoy it - see him - and maybe explore the past. But look to the future for more albums as good as this!

Edwyn's Back

There are some real gems here notably the collaborations which bring out the best in the guests while remaining unmistakably Edwyn.
"I still believe in you" with it's frankly awesome intro plus Edwyn croon, the irresistible "It dawns on me" with Romeo Stodart and the Johnny Marr co-write "Come tomorrow come today" is 100% pure Orange Juice. Elsewhere there are fine tunes with Franz Ferdinand,The Drums and great friend Roddy Frame. There's also the very poignant "Searching for the truth".

Great tunes and great riffs- go get.

Biography

Born: 23 August 1959 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Best known for his tenure fronting the Scottish pop revivalists Orange Juice as well as his international solo hit "A Girl Like You," singer Edwyn Collins was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1959. In 1976, he formed the Nu-Sonics, who resurfaced three years later as Orange Juice; the leading proponent of the Glasgow neo-pop scene, the band earned a devoted cult following but little commercial success, and by the early '80s Collins was the only remaining founding...
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