Robert Wyatt – Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard

Great reissue! Extremely quiet pressing and great separation. sounds like the instruments are right in the room with you and it was recorded yesterday. Music is more experimental with more musical variety yet perhaps more intimate than Rock Bottom.

My copy of this came with the RICHARD sticker on both sides!

Relative to Rock Bottom, this album contains a hypnotic quality I find captivating, and which I find myself returning to again and again.

I don't see it mentioned here - but the back cover of my copy (in hand) is rotated 90 degrees from the front cover's orientation. Don't know if this is part of all copies or if it's an anomaly.

In all copies I ever heard, either US or UK reissue, I heard the effect of - or similar to - non-fill sections.
I ed Domino a couple of times to made them aware but they never answered. I felt ignored by them.
That's really a shame since this records sound very good.

Robert Wyatt's previous album to this is rightly held up as one of the best albums ever made. I was too young to know this music when it was first realeased and only came to Robert Wyatt much later in life. Ruth... received luke warm reviews on release; it is a totally unique album that defied comparison at the time. In retrospect it is this album and not Rock Bottom which points the way to his future music. Lots of songs, lots of collaboration and an introduction to what would be called world music. This is a great album.