The primal roar of Kuepper's Brisbane band the Saints pre-dated punk; and, in the 1980s, his Laughing Clowns ensemble attempted a daring thrash-jazz fusion. These selected 1990s solo works reveal a man unwilling to rest on his laurels. Critics loved the sparse, acoustic blues of 1990's Today Wonder, so he followed it with the pulverising thrash of 1991's Ascension. By the decade's end, he'd recorded the upbeat, old-timey Frontierland and the instrumental album Starstruck, all without ever learning to quite sing in tune. Consequently, This Is the Magic Mile sounds like three CDs' worth of different artists, bonded by a curious, restless consistency of vision.
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