KEVIN COYNE : CARNIVAL

1. Stop Picking On Me
2. Charlene
3. The Wobble
4. Missing You
5. Don't Forget Me
6. Rolling And Tumbling
7. I Heard You
8. My Story
9. Sweet Melinda
10. Party Party Party
11. All My Friends
12. Sugar Mama
13. For Angel Eyes
14. But You Do
15. Carnival
16. Almost Invisible

Label : Ruf Records

Release Date : 2002

Length : 55:15

Review (Uncut) : A Kevin Coyne dance album? Not quite, but Carnival has as many moments of upbeat joy as pained contemplation. Tired of being consigned to a pigeonhole for troubled eccentrics, the prolific novelist/artist/musician now resident in Germany lets loose on the Bobby Parker-alike "Wobble" and gives his unique twist to the stabbing electro of "Party Party Party". Coyne's partnership with son Robert (co-producer/songwriter) continues to mine new territory. The spare, icy poetry of "Missing You" masterfully contrasts with a seething rearrangement of Muddy Waters' "Rolling And Tumbling". Only a true original could breath new life into the latter, and Coyne still fits that bill.

Review (AllMusic) : This is not a compilation but a regular studio album. Recorded at Musication Nürnberg and mixed at Brühl Studios Weimar in 2002. Produced by Kevin & Robert Coyne. Vocals, Acoustic Guitar - Kevin Coyne. Drums - Werner Steinhauser. Guitar - Michael Lipton. Guitar, Keyboards - Robert Coyne. An excellent warm and funny song cycle, one of his last albums. He was already diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis from which he died in 2004 - he countered it with his humour and humanity like during his whole career. Originally released in 2002 on German Ruf label.