Back to Black is Amy Winehouse� second album. Wildly talented and a recent name in soul who just emerged in 2003, Amy Winehouse has brilliant set of pipes. Frank, her first album, was a sparse and stripped-down affair; Back to Black, meanwhile, is neither of these things.
Back to Black proves that her material is stronger than the hype. Its production is an artful blend of sophisticated '60s R&B and 21st-century stylistic poaching, with "Tears Dry on Their Own" incorporating elements of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and Winehouse sounding like Billie Holiday fronting a reggae band on the old-fashioned cheating song "Just Friends." While cuts like "Wake Up Alone," "An Unholy War" and "Love Is a Losing Hand" show what the English Winehouse can do when she stops cribbing a posed toughness from American hip-hop songs.
Hailed by Newsweek Magazine as a cross between Billie Holiday and Lauryn Hill, British soul singer Amy Winehouse's U.S. debut, Back To Black hits the US amid a flurry of accolades, radio and TV buzz unprecedented in recent years for a young siren. The first of her kind, Amy Winehouse BACK TO BLACK is a sumptuous-sounding collection freighted with blunt confessionals of a lush life. Get your own copy now! |
