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In Focus: Prefab Sprout
In Focus: Prefab Sprout
22.12.23 · Witton Gilbert

In Focus: Prefab Sprout

Focus on Prefab Sprout

"Quiet genius" might seem like a trite platitude to bestow a pop musician, but there are fewer more deserving of the title in the 20th Century than Prefab Sprout's now retired songwriter Paddy McAloon.

The true centre of the band, McAloon's musical arrangements, which playfully interpret country, rock'n'roll, synth pop and more, are at once heartwrenching and inventive. His famously wry lyrics, which import the deep interiority and experimentalism of midcentury novelists to three-minute pop songs, defy easy comparison.

Experience unalloyed pop joy, with two hours of Prefab Sprout.

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