I could go long on the strange and interesting life-in-music of Anthony Moore, but instead I’ll summarise it as a career that acts as a third degree of separation between Feargal Sharkey and Faust. Moore released a handful of experimental composition albums for Polydor in the early 70s, spent time in the groups Slapp Happy and Henry Cow, then reignited his solo career in the second half of the 70s with a series of art-rock / pop-from-a-progressive perspective albums that’d certainly appeal to fans of rockin’ Eno, John Cale, Bowie’s Low, Pete Gabriel, Magazine and bits of Peter Hammil’s non-Van Der Graaf werk. ‘Flying Doesn’t Help’ feels almost too good to be true. Instead of digging through Phil Manzanera solo LPs for glimmers of that pulsing glam art pop sound a la the first-four-Eno-LPs, this album is essentially that start to end. I hope Drag City’s stash of this reissue doesn’t dry up any time soon! — Nic
