1977 Gary Wilson “You Think You Really Know Me” on MCM

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I think most true heads are aware of the Gary Wilson Trio’s (actually a duo) 1974 “Another Galaxy”, an odd and beautiful little album of arty trinkets that amazingly, kind of like “Christening For Listening”, has one HUGE jazz-funk banger on it.

This follow-up, and the last record Wilson would put out for decades, is in many ways more nuanced and complex, while also lacking the moneycut that everyone is dying to sample.

​Which is good in a way, so it can sit in the corner, sedate and isolated, where it probably belongs.

And where Wilson clearly prefers to be, most often described as a “Performance Artist”, which, if you were alive in the nineties, is a phrase that probably gives you the dry heaves. In reality I’d call him an Art Brut magician with a side of Experimental Onanism. Either way, this record is great, as is “Another Galaxy”, and fits firmly if not equivalently in the realm of Roky Erikson, Syd Barrett, Skip Spence, Moondog, Magic Power Mako, Alan Davies, Arthur Russell, and Some Guy In A Wig.

​The action isn’t cheap, but the payoff is deep. ​