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Graham Coxon - The Kiss Of Morning
Reviewed
by Mojo,
November 2002
 Those
keen to sniff out clues as to Graham Coxon's recent
career-change are sure to salivate over large parts of
'The Kiss Of Morning'. On 'Just Be Mine', some unnamed
source of frustration is addressed thus: "You try
the patience of saints/And that is just what I
ain't." Yet more pointedly, on the charmingly-titled
'Song For The Sick', he sings, "You stabbed me in
the back/You're lower than a snake/Your brains are in
your sack/You two-faced f*ckin' fake." Though
chatrooms will surely be abuzz with it all, the album's
real trump-card is its abiding sense of goggle-eyed
imagination: 'Locked Doors' melds White Album-esque rock
to a beautifully rolling groove. 'It Ain't No Lie' snaps
from Beck circa '94 into a lopsided Hendrix pastiche, and
the exquisite 'Bitter Tears' is an intimate confessional
à la 'Mellow Song' from Blur's '13'. That his
ex-compadres will miss him is beyond argument, but 'The
Kiss Of Morning' makes their loss plain.
John
Harris
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