Mike Donovan - Wot (2013)

2013 solo debut from the former Sic Alps man. Lyrically, Mike's sharpened the lead for a less random line drawn in the sand - but he's still alit on allusive trips, lost in crystal canyons, turning a phrase with an acid flick of the wrist-watch. In this life, there is a brooding pregnancy as he intones over some front-porch 21st-century j'accuse-tic blues with a blur of bygone, half-plugged, elegiac slow-mo Rock 'n' Roll rubbed in for good measure. Guitars intersecting in the manner of the old loom the Stones once used, weaving in blue. Where rubric becomes fabric becomes freecidelic. Confronting the empty in acrostic (inner) space, Wot is Plastic Ono dyspeptic arrhythmia, with Mike's soul shout outs at the five-and-dime buried in the symmetry. The dream is over, so he's starting a new dream.

Tracklist:
01. Mike Donovan - New Fieldhand Bop
02. Mike Donovan - Lost Wot
03. Mike Donovan - Fly Them Yourself
04. Mike Donovan - Do Do Ya?
05. Mike Donovan - Sic Ballad
06. Mike Donovan - Baroque Ass
07. Mike Donovan - Sexual Reassignment Surgery Blues
08. Mike Donovan - MP3 Farm
09. Mike Donovan - Still in Town
10. Mike Donovan - George Guitar Bit
11. Mike Donovan - A Thousand Ages From The Sun
12. Mike Donovan - Perpetual Sabbath