Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause - Babble (1979)

This album is swiftly rising to the stack of my all-time favorites. Musical accompaniment to the theatrical production of one of the strangest collaborations I've heard: Kevin Coyne, a brilliant songwriter well-versed in outsider art, and Dagmar Krause, the contralto chartreuse responsible for the ethereal vocals of avant-prog outfits Henry Cow and Art Bears. Touted by Will Oldham as "the album that changed [his] life", Babble is an unflinching exhumation of a schizoid romance. It sounds like nothing out of the same era (or indeed, anything else by either songwriter), roaming with manic energy between emotional evocations. I wish I could explain further but I've barely plumbed its depths so far, so I'll just let Coyne's opener do the talking...