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Joss Stone - Colour Me Free
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Joss Stone makes for an unlikely symbol of artistic defiance. Since she emerged in 2003 with a cutesy rendition of the White Stripes' "Fell in Love With a Girl," this English soul singer has become a favorite of romantic-comedy music supervisors and the folks who put together the in-store mix at Starbucks. If your goal is inspiring the bonhomie required to make somebody spring for biscotti, she's your gal. Yet here we have the second album in a row on which Stone declares her unwillingness to conform to anyone else's creative vision. In 2007, after a pair of tidy retro-R&B efforts, came the more free-spirited "Introducing Joss Stone," with a title that spoke for itself....full text |
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| Joss Stone has been publicly battling her label for some time, and she may not be done, with a first single that ends with her wailing ''Free me, EMI!'' Any tiffs mostly get translated into romantic tension, though, and the first half of her fourth album is the best set of music she's done — especially ''Could Have Been You,'' which throws an off-the-beat piano riff on top of a proto- typical Al Green groove and Stone's controlled regret. The second half succumbs to R&B overproducers, unfortunately, but for a while, she's on the right freedom trail. B...full text |
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O n "Free Me," the lead single from Joss Stone's fourth studio album, "Colour Me Free," the U.K. singer indirectly addresses critics who've suggested that her sound isn't wholly original. "There's nothing that you can't do/'Cause it's all about your attitude/Don't let them get to you," she growls assertively on the track. The notion that swagger trumps all seems to have guided Stone throughout her career-and it's no different on "Colour Me Free." She continues to hit each note with the precise amount of retro pomp that one would expect, and there are again moments when the '70s soul love affair gets a little carried away. The arrangement of the song "Parallel Lines" is every bit like Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground," and the protest "Governmentalist" (featuring rapper Nas) may as well be about Vietnam. Elsewhere, the sublime track "Big Ole Game" (featuring fellow soul revivalist Raphael Saadiq) almost sounds like an old Al Green recording. But what's the harm in that? --Monica Herrera...full text |
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