![]() ![]() Songs like Midnight Tram To Nowhere and the optimistic, album-closing One Day (It’s Being Scheduled) are state-of-the-art Hitchcock, manifesting his signature wit, miraculous gift for melodic craftsmanship, and striking humanity in a world gone mad. Recorded over the pandemic era, Shufflemania! offers up 10 gloriously ingenious new Hitchcock songs in just under 40 minutes - a “proper pop album” as nature intended. The psych-rock influence is a callback to his days with The Soft Boys and his early solo albums. ![]() This is the first time Robyn has made a full-band album in the studio since 2008, and the record features a lot of key players, including Gillian Welch, Emma Swift, Pat Sansone ( Wilco, The Autumn Defense), and Grant-Lee Phillips. The new record was recorded in Nashville, Robyn’s new home base in the U.S., and was produced by Robyn and Brendan Benson ( The Raconteurs). T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Shufflemania! is singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock‘s followup to 2014’s critically acclaimed The Man Upstairs.
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