KSCOPE
★★★★
Richard Barbieri could have been tempted to exploit the almost simultaneous deluxe reissue of former band Japan’s 1979 classic Quiet Life – reviewed on page 90 – but Under A Spell is not that album. It’s not even the one he set out to make: he’d intended to continue in the vein of 2017’s Planets + Persona, recording with multiple musicians in a variety of European studios. Covid put paid to this.