Wow! What a blast of nostalgia. And such great music. ‘There’s a quiet storm’, she sings, in The Sweetest Taboo. Quiet storm, the perfect description of the sultry soulful music she and her group make.
Opening her second album with Is It A Crime and Taboo? Phew! Hot. And cool. Just utterly brilliant. I’m not massively sold on the ‘so 80s’ gated snare sound of the drums. But within the overall mix it’s fine.
Oh, and as a listener to rain sounds when I get off to sleep, the fact Taboo starts and ends with rain is rather apt and lovely. Even the ‘album tracks’, as they call them – i.e. the non hit singles – are terrific, like track three, the jazzy War of The Hearts.
In other words there’s no dip in quality, as we move from the heavy airplay hits, to the rest of collection.