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MISS GRACE JONES IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE!

Advantages: Hurricane emerges as Grace Jones most compelling recording project
Disadvantages: None that springs to mind

...The stormy title track Hurricane is something of a hypnotic masterpiece! The sweeping and pounding wave of multi-layered arrangements are complimented by Grace's assertive voacl performance. Her voice is often synchronised on this powerful, contagious, atmospheric number. Love You To Life is another hip, trancey R&B-Club number with stark efefcts and compelling musical undertones of Reggae-Rasta. The hypnotic-like chrous, where Grace is joined by ...
...Hurricane then begins winding down with another mellow, late-night R&B number with a driving Jamacian vibe Sunset, Sunrise. This other atmospheric number careers along at a dreamy, mellow pace. On the final number Devil In My Life, Grace rides along a high tidal wave of multi-layered arrangements, including prominent, erratic violin interludes that provide a seamless musical backdrop. Devil In My Life sounds the ideal track to be lifted as a single, ...

IanPhillips 10.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Hurricane - Grace Jones

The Definitive Grace Jones Studio Album

Advantages: The funky Pull Up To The Bumper
Disadvantages: None that really springs to mind

...early 1981 for the unforgetable Nightclubbing project. Grace Jones second album on Island Records is possibly the greatest of her considerably short recording career and captured Jones at her artistic peak. It features a series of remarkable recordings, encapsulating a multitude of styles such as New Wave, Reggae, Funk, Jazz and Soul. She was again aided by the fabulous production skills of those reggae kings, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. Nightclubbing ...
...unique version of Iggy Pop's Nightclubbing is a total contrast to the original, flowing with strange, synchronized sounds that was way ahead of its time. The New Wave sounds of Art Groupie is another interesting concoction, but the music steadily steers direction, driving into jazz on the eccentric but undeniably brilliant, I've Seen That Face Before in which Grace delivers both English and French spoken passages. The disappointment of the album ...

IanPhillips 07.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Nightclubbing - Grace Jones

Grace Jones' 1986 Studio Album

Advantages: The funky, I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)
Disadvantages: The painfully dated, Victor Should Have Been A Jazz Musican

...and the recording sessions for Inside Story were a little intense. Following on from her Reggae/Funk/Rock/New Wave infused albums such as the excellent Warm Leatherette (1980) and the critically-acclaimed Nightclubbing (1981), Inside Story (1986) divulged Jones into a far more commercial sound. Inside Story was a mixed concoction of Pop/Dance/Funk/R&B with subtle hints of jazz on one particularly awful track, Victor Should Have Been A Jazz Muscian. ...
...The title track, Inside Story, closes the album on a high. With a spiritual and poignant edge, this track does emerge as another of the projects highlights. Not one of her best albums, nor was it a great commercial success though this remains one of her most commercially visible albums. Ian Phillips July 2006 ...

IanPhillips 07.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Inside Story - Grace Jones

Reggae-Rock-Funk-Soul-New Wave

Advantages: The excellent U.K Top 20 hit, Private Life
Disadvantages: The dated, album track, Bulls***

...mainstream recognition with the superb Warm Leatherette album. Grace Jones shifted musical direction for the Warm Leatherette (1980) project, divulging into a diverse blend of sounds and styles ranging from Reggae, Rock, New Wave, Funk and Soul. The finished results were some of Jones most compelling recording work. This album was not least aided by the excellent production skills of Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin as well as the startling muscians ...
...The title track Warm Leatherette is an electric affair combining a striking mixture of Rock, New Wave and Reggae. Jones sounds even a little playful on the tracks chrous consisting of thrashing guirtar riffages. Jones fantastic cover version of The Pretenders, Private Life is given a more definitive and unique working over where Jones seemingly scowls through the duration of each verse whilst then singing gently in that raw (though narrow) vocal ...

IanPhillips 18.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones

Ladies And Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones

Advantages: These two discs capture some of Grace Jones most enthralling recording work
Disadvantages: Strangely omits the classic "Slave To The Rhythm" - one of Grace's biggest sellers

...singer, actress and ex-super model Grace Jones surprised both critics and fans in 2008 when she re-emerged after a 19 year hiatus, seemingly with a vengeance, on what is arguably the best album of her career "Hurricane". Now in her sixties, Grace Jones has amazingly never looked or sounded so great. "The Grace Jones Story" features her work prior to that stunning album and easily is the most lengthy, generous sampling of her sorely over-looked music ...
...already available is that "The Grace Jones Story" welcomingly highlights all areas of her recording career, from her days as a celebrated disco diva and deservedly hailed as the "queen of gay discos", to her heralded trilogy of masterpieces with Sly and Robbie and to her post-Island work where Grace delved into pop and underground terriotry. The vast majority of hit singles Grace has scored variously on the pop, R&B and dance/club charts are included ...

IanPhillips 03.09.2009 · Read full review
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