Brian Wilson's Aura Smiles Over Green
By DJ M on June 4th, 2006
In Miscellaneous Music
INS NEWS “If ivory towers were a feature of the pop landscape, then one of the loftiest would have been long occupied by Green Gartside, the man who is Scritti Politti. Once a musical Marxist theoretician, then a chart regular, there is something appealing about Gartside's infrequent appearances above the parapet. White Bread, Black Beer, his first album in seven years, is a fine one: a set of dainty, artful songs much beholden to Brian Wilson's mid-Sixties vocal arrangements.”