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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

Grace Jones Last Studio Album To Date

Advantages: Some of the tracks ignite
Disadvantages: Others are too dated

...Chivilles for the rather disjointed Bulletproof Heart album. Jones co-wrote the majority of songs along with singer Chris Stanley. Bulletproof Heart (1989) like Inside Story (1986) was another foray into mainstream Pop, divulging into Funk, R&B and Dance. The project seemed more of an effort on Jones' part to catapult her back onto the club scene where she had enjoyed immense success in the late 1970's. Opening the album is the funk-driven dance ...
...to be found scattered on Bulletproof Heart. With the jamming affair of Driving Satisfaction, you would think the album would get better from here on but the whole project is something of a mixed affair with some highs and some lows. Another anthem written by Jones and Chris Stanley, Kicked Around, features a ferocious, red-blooded Jones in sado-massachist (and even more freaky than usual) mode as she scowls through this tale of self-esteem, fighting ...

IanPhillips 01.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Bulletproof Heart - Grace Jones