D. R. Hooker - The Truth Artist_Aurora an important step in a

an important step in a years-long journey to embrace his true self

This album is the essential bridge between LSD and the later Musick to Play in the Dark series

blending layer upon layer of synthesizer and adding his assured drumming to come up with the perfect meeting of indie-pop and ambient music

Their old RAK studios colleague Nigel Godrich once told them

D. R. Hooker - The Truth Artist_Aurora an important step in aA real people music masterpiece, D. R. Hookers 1972 debut meets at the be in of drug addled hippy psychedelia and evangelical Christianity. Conjuring visions of an L. S. D. damaged Frank Sinatra or Lou Reed playing the role of a divorced suburban dad, The Truth is a religious midlife crisis disguised as a private press LP. Forge your own chains, indeed.