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PLAY QUEUE 1 Sea Song		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 A Last Straw		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Alifib		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Alife		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road		save

MOG Editorial Review

Recorded just after he lost control over the nerves in his legs after falling out a window, Wyatt’s masterpiece Rock Bottom is by no means anything less than an evolving adventure. A collection of pop music this hard to pigeonhole should at least seem to fly off the handle at some point, right? Yet it doesn’t. From the opening bars of the first track on Rock Bottom, "Sea Song," it's clear this isn't your average solo album by an ex-member of a prog band. It’s classier, more patient, perhaps better as a single document than anything he did with The Soft Machine. These haunting compositions evoke the images of maelstroms both emotional and real, with Wyatt at the center of each, taming their inertia, maintaining their tension as he floats his way through touches of jazz and the avant-garde.
AMG Review of Rock Bottom

Jim Powers
All Music Guide

Rock Bottom, recorded with a star-studded cast of Canterbury musicians, has been deservedly acclaimed as one of the finest art rock albums. Several forces surrounding Wyatt's life helped shape its outcome. First, it was recorded after the former Soft Machine drummer and singer fell out of a five-story window and broke his spine. Legend had it that the album was a chronicle of his stay in the hospital. Wyatt dispels this notion in the liner notes of the 1997 Thirsty Ear reissue of the album, as well as the book -Wrong Movements: A Robert Wyatt History. Much of the material was composed prior to his accident in anticipation of rehearsals of a new lineup of Matching Mole. The writing was completed in the hospital, where Wyatt realized that he would now need to sing more, since he could no longer be solely the drummer. Many of Rock Bottom's songs are very personal and introspective love songs, since he would soon marry Alfreda Benge. Benge suggested to Wyatt that his music was too cluttered and needed more open spaces. Therefore, Robert Wyatt not only ploughed new ground in songwriting territory, but he presented the songs differently, taking time to allow songs like "Sea Song" and "Alifib" to develop slowly. Previous attempts at love songs, like "O Caroline," while earnest and wistful, were very literal and lyrically clumsy. Rock Bottom was Robert Wyatt's most focused and relaxed album up to its time of release. In 1974, it won the French Grand Prix Charles Cros Record of the Year Award. It is also considered an essential record in any comprehensive collection of psychedelic or progressive rock. Concurrently released was the first of his two singles to reach the British Top 40, "I'm a Believer."