ALISON MOYET
The Minutes
Modest
Alison Moyet is in her fifties now, and as often happens, this seems to be a record about looking back. After the obligatory covers album, theatre work and a brief Yazoo reunion, it’s been six years since her last album, and “The Minutes” has a lot in common with her early days, with more than its fair share of eighties synth nods.
She still has a distinctive voice, and the production is straight out of the top drawer, helped along by Guy Sigsworth who has worked with Bjork, Madonna and Robyn. It’s certainly not easy listening, which is where vocalists of a certain age always seem to end up, and this definitely feels like an album that Ms Moyet wanted to make rather than one she had to make. The uneasy listening is best exemplified by songs like ‘Changeling’, ‘Apple Kisses’ and ‘All Sign Of Life’, which have a hunger and a yearning about them, which seem out of time.
There are a couple of poppier moments, no more so than on ‘When I Was Your Girl’, which would have been a sure fire hit back in the day, as would album highlight, ‘Love Reign Supreme’. Despite it’s nods to the past, it’s a surprisingly modern record, and one that Alison Moyet fans of old will clasp to themselves lovingly.
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