Spooked is a 2004 album by Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....

 in collaboration with Gillian Welch

Gillian Welch

Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...

 and David Rawlings

David Rawlings

David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist and singer. He is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.David attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli....

. It was recorded at Woodlands Studio in Nashville, TN.

The set comprises twelve new recordings, all self-composed with the exception of "Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door", a cover of a very recent Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 song.

The tracks revisit Hitchcock's 1980s style, containing in their lyrics portrayals of several eccentric characters, surreal situations and scenarios, and several references to death, one of Hitchcock's most enduring themes. The packaging too is retrospective, its green and yellow packaging falling in line with previous solo-acoustic albums such as Eye

Eye (album)

Eye is an album released by Robyn Hitchcock in 1990 on Glass Fish and Twin/Tone Records and is his fourth solo album, and eighth including his work with The Egyptians...

and Moss Elixir

Moss Elixir

Moss Elixir is a 1996 album by Robyn Hitchcock, containing twelve original compositions, predominantly acoustic, and released by Warner Music.Following the traumatic loss of his father, Hitchcock had recorded little in the preceding five years...

. The painting on the front is a detail from one of Hitchcock's own, featuring an enlarged cat-like creature looming from behind a wall.

Hitchcock dedicates the album to 'The Dark Princess', using the title of a track from 1999's Jewels for Sophia

Jewels for Sophia

Jewels For Sophia is a 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock, released on Warner Records.Since Respect , the hitherto prolific Hitchcock had released just one full studio album , the rest of his recent output consisting largely of repackages and live recordings...

as a pseudonym for his partner Michele Noach.

Track listing

1. "Television" (Hitchcock) – 6:22
2. "If You Know Time" (Hitchcock) – 3:32
3. "Everybody Needs Love" (Hitchcock) – 3:17
4. "English Girl" (Hitchcock) – 3:21
5. "Demons and Fiends" (Hitchcock) – 2:14
6. "Creeped Out" (Hitchcock) – 3:15
7. "Sometimes a Blonde" (Hitchcock) – 4:53
8. "We're Gonna Live in the Trees" (Hitchcock) – 3:24
9. "Tryin' to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door" (Dylan) – 6:00
10. "Full Moon in My Soul" (Hitchcock) – 3:02
11. "Welcome to Earth" (Hitchcock) – 0:49
12. "Flanagan's Song" (Hitchcock) – 4:39