Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (Reis)
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Artist: Grace JonesEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1990-06-15
Music Label: Ume Imports
Soundtracks:
- Warm Leatherette
- Private Life
- A Rolling Stone
- Love Is The Drug
- The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
- Bullshit
- Breakdown
- Pars
Free Music Notes for Warm Leatherette (Reis)
Free Music Review: A RADICAL MOVE
Hit: 5 Stars
Warm Leatherette caused a stir when released in 1980 as Grace Jones had been a disco singer since her 1977 debut Portfolio through the albums Fame and Muse. The change was drastic as the Jamaican musicians Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare gave her an innovative blend of rock, dub & reggae on songs by inter alia Chrissie Hynde, Bryan Ferry, Tom Petty, Daniel Miller and Barry Reynolds. It worked; Jones earned the respect of the rock critics whilst retaining her disco devotees.
The disturbing title track, a cover of an obscure single by The Normal, climaxes with the phrase "let's make LUURVE/before we die." Unlike the synth-pop original, Grace's vocal is filled with drama and accentuated by crashing cymbals. This contrasts markedly with her controlled version of The Pretenders' Private Life which bobs by on a bouncy reggae beat over which Ms Jones sings or talks in a scornful tone. The tempo picks up for Roxy Music's Love Is The Drug that gets an almost throwaway treatment with a lengthy, meandering exit.
No Grace Jones album is complete without the ballads. Smokey Robinson's The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game occasionally encounters twittering birdsong as it languidly lilts along. Then the mood changes first to anger on BullXcrement, a forceful protest song shot through with cynicism and dissonant guitars, and then to icy aloofness on the Tom Petty composition Breakdown. The album ends on a tuneful & romantic note with Pars, in keeping with the Jones tradition of a French chanson on every album.
The songs on Warm Leatherette fit her menacing, aloof or romantic delivery like boxing gloves. Grace deserved the acclaim for transcending the club scene and creating this appealing hybrid of New Wave & Jamaican sounds. She would work with Sly & Robbie on two more albums, Nightclubbing & Living My Life, before pursuing the soulful pop found on 1986's Inside Story and Bulletproof Heart of 1989. After a hiatus of nineteen years, Hurricane was released last year on which the dynamic duo once again added magic to the music of Grace.
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