“Pitchfork's thinking person's male crooner continuum places David Sylvian not so very far from the male crooner who guards the right-hand extremity of the continuum, Scott Walker. Sitting on the left-hand extremity is Bono, nearby him Peter Gabriel, Marc Almond, Lou Reed, Gavin Friday, and the Laughing Gnome himself, David Bowie. Sylvian is clearly indebted to Bowie. His previous band, Japan, mine”
