Album Reviews
Hear it Now
View
This London-born singer was a teenager when her air-streaked soprano distinguished the initial albums by Tricky, providing a key element of his sublimely unpretty Maxinquaye album. Now twenty-six, Martina Topley-Bird has delivered a fantastic solo debut. Co-produced by Topley-Bird and Alex McGowan, the collection interknits bluesy intimacy, R&B extroversion, theatrical confessions and rock chord progressions while keeping both feet planted in fertile electronic soil. Topley-Bird ascends to R&B heaven on "Soulfood," and then -- with Queens of the Stone Age's great Josh Homme -- fuses the coolest Jamaican music and thorniest L.A. rock on "Need One." Topley-Bird is basically a groove singer, but she knows the secret that many R&B divas miss: You need to mix your divinity with some dirt. Anything succeeds because its soul reveries are more than a little stressed-out.
Share
Email
Stumble
AIM
Del.icio.us
DiggThis
Fark It!
Advertisement
News and Reviews
Advertisement
How to Play This Album
It's FREE.
Click the play button.
Register or enter your username and password.
Let the music play!
It's FREE.
Track List
- Anything
- Ragga
- Need One
- Soul Food
- Ilya
- I Still Feel
- Sandpaper Kisses
- Too Tough Too Die
- Lullaby
- Outro
 |
Your Turn
Advertisement
More CD Reviews
-
John Mayer
Battle Studies -
Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures -
Bon Jovi
The Circle -
Paul McCartney
Good Evening New York City -
Weezer
Raditude -
Leona Lewis
Echo -
The Rolling Stones
Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set -
Nirvana
Bleach (Deluxe Edition) -
Various Artists
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack The Twilight Saga: New Moon -
Wolfmother
Cosmic Egg
©RealNetworks, Inc. All rights reserved.
©Copyright 2009 Rolling Stone; Jann S. Wenner, editor and publisher
- Portions of Album Content Provided by All Music Guide © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC.
Get RS Mobile
RSS