Music Review: Robin Guthrie – Carousel  By    |   Sunday,
September 27, 2009 Filed under: Music, Reviews music Tags: , , ,
If anyone has earned the right to avoid the standard review
complaint of an artist "not branching out" and "lacking an
original sound," it's Robin Guthrie. While other artists
scramble to reassemble existing sounds and styles into something
more their own, Guthrie long ago helped define a sound that
others have been copying—sometimes more and sometimes less
directly—ever since. From his days founding the Cocteau Twins,
complete with his reverb-heavy, almost bell-like guitar tone, he
has consistently refined that singular sound through to the
present. He's not been experimenting with the latest trends and
gimmicks in the industry, and neither has he worried with trying
to reinvent himself in order to stay in step with the short
attention span pop culture. No, what he helped create in the
first place has been working just fine, thank you.  Although his
solo career is still a bit overshadow