***The Children's Hour is an interesting propostion—an early-aughts duo of Andrew Bar and Josephine Foster featuring her songs and singing. For an intended second album (after a first on Rough Trade), they were joined by David Pajo on drums, but this music ended up on the shelf for 20 years. It's busman's holiday Foster - something a little more wilfully guileless and indie-rockette than the mordant ghost-folk of her celebrated discography. Echoes from the misfit dancefloor that once cut the rug to later VU, Jonathan Richman, Hackamore Brick, Bobb Trimble, Beat Happening, Moe Tucker, Daneilsen et al. And are dancing still, we presume!
LP $22.95
02/23/2024