Sharleen Spiteri - Melody
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Artist: Sharleen SpiteriEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Import
CD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Music Label: Universal UK
Soundtracks:
- It Was You
- All the Times I Cried
- Stop, I Don't Love You Anymore
- Melody
- I Wonder
- I'm Going to Haunt You
- Don't Keep Me Waiting
- You Let Me Down
- Where Did It Go Wrong
- Day Tripping
- Francoise
Free Music Notes for Melody
Free Music Review: Texas' leading lady gets a 60s makeover.
Hit: 4 Stars
"Melody" is a short but sweet selection of tracks which bear all the hallmarks of some of the most successful music of recent years, with the added element of Sharleen's vocals. We're talking laid back, end-of-the-night tunes that could be easily at home either on the dancefloor or in the background of a late summer barbecue.
The playlist is admittedly brief at around 37 minutes, but that doesn't matter too much, as it's good enough to put on a loop. In fact, with every track a winner one way or the other, the shuffle function might not be a bad idea to keep things interesting.
Generally speaking, quality definitely wins out over quantity on the debut solo album from the beautiful and talented Glaswegian chanteuse.
She is in fine vocal form, with that distinctive burnt caramel carapace pulling at the heartstrings as effectively as ever.
"Melody" is easy on the ear with plenty of sheen.
The 60s-infused Bondesque soul-pop is holler-along-while-you-Hoover fun, but lacks a Winehouse darkness.
Following Amy, Duffy and Adele, here's Sharleen, ex of Texas, with the mandatory Bernard Butler-produced, brassy, Motown-style heartbroken ballads about how her man done her wrong.
Actually Motown's Berry Gordy would find much to approve of in Spiteri's accomplished use of brass and rippling percussion in "Don't Keep Me Waiting", soul-laced harmonies in "You Let Me Down" and the glorious finger-clicking excitement of the Supremes-like "Day Tripping".
As this was intensely personal stuff, it was not something she wished to address on a Texas album. Now, with the band on hiatus, she has been able to pour out all the hurt and betrayal she felt into a succession of 60s girl-group pastiche numbers, somehow managing to say the same thing slightly differently on each of the 11 tracks, all packaged up with an image suggesting she's been stealing Dusty Springfield's eyeliner.
All in all, "Melody" is pretty good - especially the stomping "It Was You" and the smokily atmospheric title track - but, even to those who have never listened to the Supremes, the Four Tops and 2008's other omnipresent influences, it will seem pungently familiar.
The Texas front woman has made her "personal fantasy record", which has plenty in common, at least superficially, with the defining record of the last few years, Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, and one of the biggest-selling album of the year to date, Duffy's Rockferry, allowing the ghosts of Johnny Cash, Nancy Sinatra, Serge Gainsbourg and Elvis to direct the sound.
The glow of nostalgia is achieved, but it's all a bit bloodless..
That's the thing about "Melody" - it's pretty rather than gritty. It's a bit conservative too, choosing to replicate the sounds of the period instead of trying anything novel or adventurous with them.
White on Blonde
The Hush
Melody Poster
UK pressing includes a bonus enhanced track. 2008 solo album from the singer/songwriter and leader of Scottish Pop rockers Texas. Not only did Sharleen write the whole album, she also produced it, taking complete artistic control of its every sonic nuance. Steeped in the sound and textures of '60s Soul, '50s Rock 'N' Roll and Doo-Wop, it's an album that's vintage in flavor yet utterly contemporary in spirit. Beside the new generation of retro-obsessed UK songbirds such as Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Adele, it's a timely reminder that Sharleen was already dabbling in similar influences over a decade ago, be it Tamla Motown ('Black Eyed Boy'), Marvin Gaye ('Say What You Want') or Elvis Presley (cross-dressing up as The King for 2001's 'Inner Smile' video). Going solo has allowed her the freedom to indulge in such consuming passions even further, creating an album that proudly wears its influences on its sleeve. 11 tracks including the first single 'All The Times I Cried'.International Music CDs
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