Duffy - Rockferry
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Free Music Review: The Best New Music In Years
Hit: 5 Stars
Duffy: Rockferry . . . an album easy to recommend . . . and easier still to just play and enjoy. Duffy brings music and song back to the potentialities we expected of a song and singer from back in the late sixties and early seventies. Duffy has "the magic".
Duffy is nostalgic without being "in the past" . . she is current . .contemporary and relevent "now" . . . yet she also is in a direct libne of that great music of some decades ago . . . where somewhere, somehow, modern contemprary music seems to have lost iteself, lost melody, lost lyric, and lost artist style, Duffy brings it all back together again . . .and she can and does "deliver" a song! powerfully yet melodically.
"Rockferry" is one of the most enjoyable albums i have heard in recent times . . i hope Duffy stays around a long long time . . . she is a great talent and stylist and writer . . .get this cd.
Free Music Review: Beggin' for Mercy!
Hit: 5 Stars
What a joy! Fantastic album start to finish. I fell in love with "Mercy" upon first listen and had to have the album. Surprisingly, the other 9 tracks are all a bit more mellow and nothing else sounds like that fantastic single. Even more surprising is that I love the other nine tracks just as well if not more. Easily the best album I've heard in 2008. The only thing that sounds better than this CD is the vinyl version! I don't quite get all the comparisons to Dusty Springfield, whom I also adore. Duffy (other than the letters in her surname) has no similarities to Dusty vocally. In fact, I think her sound is completely unique. She's soulful and adult beyond her years! Pay attention to the gorgeous track "Warwick Avenue" which should be the follow-up US single and the closer "Distant Dreamer." Outstanding! Can't wait to hear Aimee's next direction she'll take!Free Music Review: Bewitching
Hit: 5 Stars
A touch of country (Dusty Springfield, sure. But what about Shelby Lynne?) added to this latest entry in the "retro soul" sweepstakes makes Aimee Duffy's "Rockferry" a standout. The comparisons to Amy Winehouse are slightly unfair. Amy dresses up in the soul tradition; Aimee inhabits it. Amy's talented (and "Back to Black" is surely a five-star album, too), but she uses soul as a marketing tool. Aimee believes in it. And I believe in her.
Best cuts: "Rockferry" (the most unusual), "Warwick Avenue" (segue to Nellie McKay's "Manhattan Avenue," djs), "Mercy" (intense!), and "Distant Dreamer" (Anthemic! Spectoresque!).
And, speaking of "Dreamer" (soon to be covered by wedding singers and "American Idol" wannabees) what a daring move it was to place that tune in the CD's closing slot. That's normally the place reserved for something quiet.
Free Music Review: Pop gem
Hit: 5 Stars
Not listening to radio much these days due to the appalling lack of quality of 99% of the material aired, I was first captured by the opening riff on "Mercy," which was playing on a co-worker's XM radio. At first I was put off by Duffy's warbly vibrato, but after hearing the song several times, I bought the CD.
This a pop gem, with great production, strong songs and Duffy's unusual and amazing voice. The lyrics may not break new ground, but oft-visited themes of love and heartbreak are reworked so that, at least, they are not boring.
Props to Duffy and all the production team; the sound is light years beyond the usual "loudness control" settings that ruin most mixes these days. The sound is open, balanced and everything seems in perfect proportion to Duffy's vocals.
Sweet! Looking forward to her next project.
Free Music Review: Wow! Great music.
Hit: 5 Stars
Rockferry
This is a great album. I heard the song Mercy on Slacker.com and decided to listen to the some of the other songs so I discount the comments about marketing. I was totally knocked over by Distant Dreamer and Stepping Stone. I kept expecting her vocals and lyrics to digress into a more syrupy, pop style a la Motown. Instead, her smoky, emotional voice just kept drawing me in more and more. I was amazed by her ability to add together a 50's pop style of singing with a very jazzy, bluezy kind of depth. She kind of reminds me of Eva Cassidy. Anyway, don't believe the anti-hype. Find a free internet radio station and try out a few of these songs - you'll see what I'm talking about.