Blog: The Gumshoe Grove

Henry Cow (listen to In Praise HERE , sample any of their songs HERE ) are one of those bands that always get short shrift from just about everybody. Not as cool as Gong, not as hip as Can, not as weird as Faust and not near as popular as Neu! and Kraftwerk. If anything though, their relative obscurity lends them a certain credibility. While mod-prog heads worship Mars Volta and only skim the surface for MV's influences, great bands like Henry Cow and Soft Machine are waiting for those [...]