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Sharleen Spiteri's album: literally quite good

  • May 20, 2008
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We have been enjoying the new Sharleen Spiteri album, 'Melody', recently.

It's a bit of a 'Sharleen In Memphis' concept album but, in contrast with some of the joyless 60s/soul bandwagon jumping we seem to be exper­i­en­cing this year, 'Melody' hits hard with a sonic and emotional depth. There's also ring of authen­ti­city to Sharleen's own motiv­a­tion for making this retro record.

More import­antly it also has some great pop bits on it.

A good pop bit of one song:

[audio:sharleen1.mp3]

A good pop bit of another song:

[audio:sharleen2.mp3]

A good pop bit of another song:

[audio:sharleen3.mp3]

Choice quotes from the biog:

"My life was going through some big personal changes"
"It was com­pletely the right vibe"
"I've always wanted to make a Nancy Sinatra record"
"Put your heels on"
"I got him to paint the garage"

Most sig­ni­fic­antly, we like the idea of the album title being written in nice colours. Well done to whoever thought of that idea.

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