Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
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Free Music Review: Refreshing!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
With so many contemporary R&B singers having gone away from the more vintage Soul sounds on their records, it has opened the door for someone like Amy Winehouse to recapture the luster with a brilliant and compelling Retro-Soul flashback. "Back to Black" becomes a surreal alternative to what's currently on the market. Amy Winehouse has created a viable option to more modern R&B with songs like "Rehab," "Back to Black," and "You Know I'm No Good." And her skillful throwback is a legitimate alternative that should be taken seriously. Vocally, she's almost overqualified for the genre. She really is that good, more like a teacher instead of a student. And if her album catches on like it really should, then she'll have many eager pupils waiting for a lesson. Another understated genius of the record is its vibrant honesty. She certainly takes some notable risks with the album's overall tone and lyrical style. But Amy Winehouse should be commended for not just going through a checklist when putting the record together. It's not as predictable as some might assume. She makes the album sound fresh yet authentic at the same time. I'd rather hear music that comes from an artist's genuine state of mind instead of a preordained experience that's been sanctioned as safe. This is one of the few records that's a relief to listen to and not a chore. I would encourage people to keep an open mind and let the work speak for itself.Free Music Review: Winehouse's "Back to Black" is, well, in the house.
Hit: 5 Stars
I read about this fiery Brit chick a few weeks ago when this same album was first released in the U.K. She was branded as a new voice of the soul movement, acting as a supreme leader with her throw-back, smoky vocals and old-school sound. I like the old-school, but i didn't think she would live up to it. Lo-and-behold, the lady actually did...and you know what? I think she outdid everyone in the game thus far. She samples classic tunes and adds a nice ska/soul/reggae tinge that is so sweet, your mouth salivates after every note. She is definitely a throw-back vocalist, at times sounding like Sara Vaughn, or Nina Simone, or Chet Baker, or Nat "King" Cole--to put it simply, the girl can sang!!! Overall, her music sounds like this wicked cross-breed of Bitter:Sweet meets Joss Stone meets Esthero meets Si*Se. And you've never heard anything this intense in your life, trust me.
Amy Winehouse has the groove, the voice, the rhythm, the style and all the right kind of swagger that ought to get her some mad props from the street. I love this chick--you should, too
Oh, and if you are in the New England area, buy your copy from Newbury Comics--it comes with a complimentary copy of the single for "Rehab". The single has a song not on Back to Black entitled "Close To The Front".
Check her out, seriously.
Have a beautiful tomorrow.
Free Music Review: Jazz meets Soul in the land of bliss. Her reputation is already assured.
Hit: 5 Stars
Addiction to alcohol, marijuana, sex - just about anything you can get hooked on, Amy has been there, written a song about it, and is now looking for something else to feed her dependency.
Well, it makes for an interesting record.
As a songwriter Amy has grown and stretched her self, vocally she is in a new league breaking loose with Aretha-style vocal stylings on "Just Friends" or going gospel on the opening single "Rehab".
"Love Is A Losing Game" is pure classic modern songwriting: brief, to the point and drenched in emotion. Other highlights include the Nas inspired "Me and Mr Jones", the beautiful "Wake Up Alone" and "I'm No Good" - the personal epiphany that you can behave just as badly as all those guys that have messed you around and stamped all over you..
After a strident opening with (refusing to go to) "Rehab", she works through a patchwork of vices and denials and just about every genre going in a self-dramatising sweep of trauma and Tanqueray.
Swept along in the tide of her addictions, over waves of Aretha Franklin influences, her cigarette-tinged voice croons, twists and occasionally screeches to a complement of guitars, trumpets, even the odd flugelhorn.
You name it, she's not afraid to use it.
Experimental and confident, she flirts variously with R&B, soul and hip hop before returning to her home key: JAZZ.
Free Music Review: RETRO SOUL
Hit: 5 Stars
In U.K. Amy Winehouse has been a tabloid regular recently with tales of anoxeria, addiction, and drunken TV appearances, but she really should let her music speak for itself . . . especially when it's as good as this.
Her debut, "Frank", was sometimes stodgy and definitely over praised, but no praise is too high for this unashamedly retro, but beautifully observed and realised take on classic girl group pop and Motown soul.
The 11 songs all sound like great lost classics from the 60s, snappily written with a mix of bitterly caustic lyrics and finger popping tunes, then delivered in a voice that alternates sexy smouldering with dismissive contempt.
She started last year amid criticism from all corners over her dramatic weight loss and ended it heralded as the new queen of UK cool; with hair messier than a sleepover with Pete Doherty, a mouth like a drunken fish wife and an album swelling with the kind of lump-in-throat emotional soul last heard sometime in the late 70s, somewhere in Detroit
Hence it was somewhat of a surprise when it reared its sultry head again in 2006. With near genius production from hip pop mainstay Mark Ronson (who also had a finger in the tasty pie that was Lily Allen's debut), stomping, romping punk-rock-jazz was the order of the day as Ms Winehouse showed everyone what being a real lady is all about.
Free Music Review: This Girl Can Sing, Sing, Sing
Hit: 5 Stars
No need for a big explanation about the exceptionally gifted Amy Winehouse. The album speaks for itself. "Back to Black" is pure retro brilliance. Only a select few could have pulled off something on this scale. Instead of hating on Ms. Winehouse because she's not Etta James, why not enjoy the fact that she made an honest Soul record of the kind that we've been lacking for awhile. Suggesting that she is a mere "mocking bird" comes off as silly and incredibly narrow-minded. I don't understand why we can't enjoy the past in the present, but with contemporary artists. I would buy this album if you're interested in hearing Amy Winhouse's interpretation of the past. It's like traveling in a time machine with all the modern comforts of home. This album for many young people will be far more accessible than the older records themselves. I own a lot of what's on radio. But I love it when someone like Amy Winehouse comes around and has the nerve to break all the rules. How dare she make an album that channels Soul's heyday without it being self-indulgent and boring. Who does she think she is? I'll tell you. She knows exactly what to do with her voice and gets it right on every single song. "Back to Black" pays respect to the great past, acknowledges the current trends, and looks ahead to the future. It's the combination of it all that makes this album so enjoyable.