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Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep

Review by Michael Wheeler

The 12 tracks of elegant and aching soul-pop sucker-punches that make up Losing Sleep demand your thought.»

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rough trade exclusive with a bonus cd of 19 bird related songs from peggy lee, the swallows, shirley temple, manfred mann, linton kwesi johnson etc, an exclusive edwyn print and signed by the man himself. 'losing sleep', the seventh album from former orange juice frontman (and 'a girl like you' hitmaker) edwyn collins is the scottish indie legend's first album written since recovering from two brain hemorrhages in 2005. the album features collins co-writing tunes with contemporaries (johnny marr, roddy frame of aztec camera) and progeny (franz ferdinand's alex kapranos and nick mccarthy, the cribs' ryan jarman, the drums, and the magic numbers' romeo stodart).
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