Second Spring?

The hip + stylish Blue Eyed Soul Pop Texas had its heyday about 10 years ago and started with the late career of a band in the late '80s, although a succès d'estime (, I Do not Want A Lover') was recorded, which former crude mix of rock and pop. Soul but did not want to get so pretty. That changed only 8 years after that as the - as designed by a designer - sounding single, Say What You Want 'stormed the charts and henceforth constituted the blueprint for the years lasting chart success of Texas.

Well, Texas is history, but their charismatic and very pretty frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri and composer now dares after a long musical break at her first solo album and makes it quite well. , Melody 'presents excellent songs that would fit well to Texas, only one extreme 60's retro sound robe. That never any secret did fit the current wave, but also to Spiteri from their hero worship (Al Green, the late, Las Vegas' Elvis) already in Texas, which is why one can accuse a free ride her not - it is simply the Music with which it was socialized and loves you.

Clear, because a lot of Motown's inside, already the opener, It Was You 'sounds like the early Temptations, other songs one believes the early Marvin Gaye and even to hear the Supremes, but the Scot is limited - unlike Duffy and Amy Winehouse - not to Soul, but also takes on Easy Listening in the kind of Bacharach, Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy (Francoise), Tom Jones (, Where Did It Go Wrong 'with a brass intro in which you inevitably to James must think load) and even to Country (, I'm Going To Haunt You ") as made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford back (or is it already the Egyptian Reggae by Johnathan Richman?)

Spiteri proves with this album that you can still write song that She is very strong even without Texas that She still has one of the most seductive voices in pop and that it fits perfectly into the currently running 60 'Soul Revival. Whether it's enough for a second career spring and their order is the chart success has certainly, will only show (the first single, All The Times I Cried 'but managed ever among the Top 30 in the UK), but we are talking about a Another nice and summery 60's Retro album. A star's withdrawal because it was easy to work here too much like the sound originals from the 60's - a little more ingenuity in the arrangements would have been there already can expect ...