Jewels for Sophia

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Jewels for Sophia
Studio album by Robyn Hitchcock
Released	20 July 1999
Genre	Folk rock, folk pop
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Robyn Hitchcock, Jon Brion, Pete Gerrald, Charlie Francis, Pat Collier
Robyn Hitchcock chronology
Moss Elixir (1996) Jewels for Sophia (1999) Luxor (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Pitchfork Media	8.9/10[2]

Jewels for Sophia is the twelfth studio album by Robyn Hitchcock, released on Warner Records on 20 July 1999.^[1]

Since Respect (1993), the hitherto prolific Hitchcock had released just one studio album (Moss Elixir in 1996), the rest of his recent output consisting largely of repackages and live recordings. Jewels For Sophia however contained a dozen tracks, only one of which ("No, I Don't Remember Guildford") had been recorded previously, and two extras not listed on the cover, and hidden away after a substantial pause following the album's "last" track.

Tracks include a paean to cheese in all its forms, with a sub-text of the global power struggle, and the quasi-nonsensical title number, whose lyric is rather pointed, in a similar vein to John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus". The two hidden extras are "Mr. Tongs" and "Don't Talk to Me About Gene Hackman".