Steve Hiett - Girls In The Grass
Steve Hiett was the renaissance man’s renaissance man. Aside from making his name in Paris as a prominent photographer, artist and graphic designer, he was a natural dab hand at music. Girls In The Grass — a compilation of previously unreleased material from his archives — more than showcases Hiett’s cinematic sensibilities, as well as his lovingly restrained approach to guitar composition. There’s enough homely, fireside notes here to rival his former sole available masterpiece, Down On The Road By The Beach.
Girls In The Grass reintroduces Hiett’s languid electric blues boogie, crafted on Saturday afternoons with fellow art director Simon Kentish.
The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T, sounding like sun-warped takes on wordless, fractured non-hits from his heroes The Beach Boys.
