A Black Box
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From Over to Sitting Targets, this period in Hammill’s career can be seen as one of his creative highs. Black Box (1980) fits perfectly in there as (yet) another essential album.
Fogwalking is as brooding and ominous as the title suggests. The pivotal song on this album is Flight - a twenty minute epic which veers, Hammill-style from the introspective Flying Blind to the manic White Cane Fandango, splintering further into different sections. |
Nevertheless, even though Black Box comes strongly recommended, it is a flawed album, with The Jargon King and (the mercifully short) The Wipe being two shouldn’t-have-bothered songs.