Blog: PopMatters

With the re-release of his long-lost, much-mythologised d�but solo album, Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead , the legacy of the multi-talented Vivian Stanshall deserves fresh appraisal from the young, the curious and the weird... Strange tongues comfort me; Darkened rooms calm me down. Make overtures to your insanity... Good to have friends around. -- 'Strange Tongues' by Vivian Stanshall, Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead So-called 'lost' records are almost inevitably fetishised. The notion of unheard, unreleased music by some big bruiser of a talent, kept from us by nefarious circumstances, is often too tantalising for our imaginations to let go [...]