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The Magical World Of the Strands, 1997
Written by Michael Head?
The album this song is on, I come to find out, is a critically acclaimed but largely unknown one. This song is a lush, orchestrated pop song accentuated with strings. It's chamber pop, with the understated vocals of Nick Drake, if he were backed by the Byrds and Fairport Convention. I don't know exactly what the song is about, but "Hocken's Hey" seems to evoke a very British homeland, bringing to mind a verdant countryside where a tiny hamlet nestles. Head's vocal evokes a sort of dark, expressionistic melancholy, but meshed with breezy, jangly, layered pop.
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