Sinéad O'Connor - Collaborations
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Music CD Cover Artist: Sinéad O'Connor Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2005-06-21 Music Label: Capitol Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Collaborations Album
Free Music Review: Yep, she can still do the trick...
Hit: 5 Stars
After a few definitely forgettable albums, Sinead O'Connor shows she can still pull it off. Even if it isn't her own material here, as she colloborates with some of the most relevant current new artists.
The winning element in this album isn't just the excellent choice of songs or even the intriguiing combos she forms with the other artists, but, as ever, her charismatic voice in re-interpreting these songs.
The highlights are many, but i was surprised to finally see one of the most underrated songs ever finally covered: that of Ian Dury's "Wake up and make love with me". It's easily one of the show-stealers on the whole album.
But elsewhere too it's mostly high quality stuff. "Special cases" with Massive Attack is an eerie and bombastic opener that kinda sets the tone. Interestingly the stronger songs are somehow packed in in the first half of the album, without this meaning that the latter lags far behind.
Other standouts include that with Jah Wobble ("Visions of you"), "Empire" with Asian Dub Foundation and "Guide me God" with Ghostland, and even the U2 colloboration actually hits the target rather unexpectedly.
It would be great if she could return with a strong album of her own creations but noone should complain with this here. It's packed with great tracks and it puts her among some seriously creative minds where her talent seems to come alive again.
Musically this is absolutely gripping stuff, and the misses are actually sparse if any at all.
Those that claim "Collaborations" might be O'Connor's best album yet, have a strong point and even stronger evidence backing them up in this album. In her recent albums the songwritting has been suffering and it's been left up to the vocals to carry the albums through. Predictably it wasnt enough.
Hopefully we wont have to wait years before she releases something relevant again.