Gareth Grundy 

Pop review: Arthur Russell, Love is Overtaking Me

Beloved by hipsters for his odd, cello-assisted disco albums the late Russell was also a fine songsmith, writes Gareth Grundy
  
  


Beloved by hipsters for his odd, cello-assisted disco albums from the Seventies and Eighties, the late Russell was also a fine songsmith. This set has 21 unreleased folk and pop tracks, their conventional framework unable to contain the childlike dreaminess that marks their creator's best work, whatever the genre.

 

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