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Duffy - Rockferry
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She's a kohl-eyed siren from the vicinity of the geographical elbow formed by Merseyside and north Wales. She's spent a few years getting to the point where her retro-fresh 'pop noir' got noticed. Now experienced hands are helping shape her staggering but perhaps inchoate talents. Tomorrow, surely, belongs to her. But that's enough about Candie Payne. Say hello to Duffy, the 23-year-old singer born Aimée-Ann Duffy who is, as countless pundits have declared, the Sound of 2008, the New Amy Winehouse, or simply the Welsh Adele....full text |
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| Latimes |
| At 23, singer Duffy brings a wizened depth to the songs on her debut album that belies her youth and roots in a small town in Wales. On "Rockferry," the former waitress deals in wistful, cloudy-day soul -- the title track characteristically frames her razor-thin but warm voice in the widescreen rolling lushness of strings. It's a very early-'60s retro sound, and Duffy's languid vocal precision and economic use of "soul" inflections easily cut through the vast sonic dimensions....full text |
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| Avclub |
| There's a big, bouffanted shadow looming over Aimee Duffy's debut album, but it would be reductive to write off the Welsh songstress as the second coming of Amy Winehouse. (Though that certainly hasn't stopped anyone.) There are obvious similarities: Each traffics in highly polished neo-soul and maintains a calculated retro-chic aesthetic, and the "yeah yeah yeah" hook of Rockferry's ultra-catchy single, "Mercy," echoes the ubiquitous chorus of "Rehab" a bit too closely. But where Winehouse's boozy growl conjures up smoky corners and regret, Duffy's world-weary voice radiates a cool remoteness that proves just as affecting. That ice-queen intrigue adds a certain cachet to the 23-year-old's occasionally overstudied lyrics. But the real joy of Duffy's best songs (especially "Stepping Stone" and "Warwick Avenue") isn't in her words, but in the interplay between her vocals and the slow-burning arrangements that hearken back to the best moments of Motown....full text |
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