“Richard Thompson albums are formulaic in the best sense. You expect virtuoso guitar, Jimi Hendrix with a Celtic tinge. You expect top-drawer songwriting – wry stories of soured romance and cruel fate, delivered in the 63-year-old’s huffy, dour baritone. On Electric, you’ll get what you came for. There are loads of Thompson’s revved-up Strat, and the lost-love songs, like “Another Small Thing in He”
