Andy Partridge is the disobedient child of the music industry. He smiled during the punk movement. He won't tour. He rarely grants interviews. He cries over chord progressions. He hates stardom and the limelight, and spits them out like warm beer.
Though he finds his home town of Swindon, England, a continual affront to his sensibilities — he swears he's a prisoner there — it's where he leads his fairly normal life. From this steady post, he's been cranking out 20 years' worth of sparkling pop.
-- Rifff, June 1997