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CriticClash: The Crying Light by Antony & the Johnsons
A big box discount retailer is the last place I might have gone looking for the latest album by Antony and the Johnsons. But sure enough, on a recent trip to Target for a new pair of shoes, I stopped by the music section to make sure I wasn’t missing out on any “Target exclusives”, expecting to be completely disappointed in their selection, and had to do a double take.  It turns out that Target has […]
CriticClash: Seal’s Soul
Covers albums are a tricky concept. Not too many folks have gotten it right. While I’d imagine it’s fun and maybe even challenging to tackle music made popular by someone else, a lot of times those songs are so identifiable with the original artist(s) that your album winds up sounding more like well-produced karaoke than anything else.
This is the problem that plagues British singer Seal on his sixth studio effort, entitled “Soul”. While the album […]
Infatueighties #53: Tainted Love
How does a British duo take a fun but pedestrian 60s song and turn it into an iconic synth-pop classic? Well, I don’t know, you’d have to ask Soft Cell how they did it. But the fact of the matter is that it was done!
In it’s original form, “Tainted Love” is a pleasant upbeat soul number which bears an uncanny resemblance to Fine Young Cannibals’ “Good Thing”, which arrived a quarter-century later. In it’s more […]