''Matching Head and Feet'' is a studio album by musician

Kevin Coyne Kevin Coyne (27 January 1944 – 2 December 2004) was an English musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. He was critically acclaimed for his unorthodox style of blues-influenced guitar composition, the ...

, released in June 1975 on

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records. The album featured

Andy Summers Andrew James Summers (born 31 December 1942) is an English guitarist best known as a member of the rock band the Police. Prior to joining the Police, Summers had been a member of several bands during the 1960s, including Zoot Money's Big Roll ...

on guitar.

Critical reception

Awarding the album a rating of B+,

Robert Christgau Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became a ...

wrote:

Coyne is the kind of minor artist whose faults-mainly an undeniable narrowness of emotional range that forces him to repeat effects-I am willing to overlook in this homogenized time. Sounding like a sly, bony, and clinically loony
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(or a failed
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), he here abandons quirky singer-songwriting for unkempt rock and roll."

Reviewing the album for

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said:

The arrangements are more conventional than most of his previous work, and much of the results are routine. Not lifeless, though; anything sung by Coyne will have roughness around the edges (and his voice here sometimes sounds not just raw, but downright worn). And songs about folks who carry guns, knives, and smash the faces of their wives (in "Turpentine") are not your usual rock fare. The words are unconventional, but the settings are average in a mid-'70s way, which dilutes the lyrics' impact, and makes this an unmemorable effort on the whole.

Steve Dinsdale in ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' described it as, "... a bit of a mixed bag, but one yielding a roaring highlight of Coyne's vocals in "Turpentine" and a gorgeous balled in "Sunday Morning Sunrise", aided by Summers effortless guitarwork".

Track listing

All songs written by Kevin Coyne except where noted.

Side 1

# "Saviour" (Kevin Coyne, Archie Legget, Gordon Smith) – 5:31 # "Lucy" (Coyne, Legget) – 3:02 # "Lonely Lovers" – 4:19 # "Sunday Morning Sunrise" – 5:33 # "Rock 'n' Roll Hymn" (Coyne, Legget, Tim Penn) – 3:36

Side 2

"Mrs. Hooley Go Home" – 6:04 # "It's Not Me" – 3:40 # "Turpentine" – 3:32 # "Tulip" (Coyne, Andy Summers) – 6:36 # "One Fine Day" – 4:15

Personnel

Musicians

* Kevin Coyne – vocals * Gordon Smith – semi-acoustic, electric and slide guitars *

– electric guitars * Tim Penn – keyboards * Archie Legget – bass * Peter Woolf – drums and percussion * Chris Mercer – tenor saxophone * Bud Beadle – baritone saxophone *

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– tenor clarinet and flute

Technical

* Engineer – Michael Glossop * Artwork, photography, design – Ray Smith * Recorded at Farmyard on the Manor Mobile

References

External links

''Matching Head and Feet''
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