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Alison Moyet: Voices
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For Alison Moyet’s longtime fans, Voice is a wonderful new chapter in an already illustrious career. For those not terribly familiar with the singer’s previous work, it’s a fine opportunity to discover her talent.
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Alison Moyet came to the public’s attention in the early eighties and is still here. Of the contemporaries who have stayed the course, Alison relied on the beauty of her one blue voice while Annie Lennox had the ambiguity of image to sustain her and Kate Bush cornered the ethereal end of the market.
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In the end, Moyet has to pull much of this record out of the fire all by herself. The ineluctable blast of her voice is good enough to make the single, "Invisible" (written for her by Motown legend Lamont Dozier), a definite keeper. She plumbs the depths of her register during the middle of "All Cried Out," and the effect is just as thrilling when she wails with carnal delight ("Now you have no choice but to let go/And dive into my ocean") in "Honey for the Bees." That frankly sensual, defiantly uncoy attitude helps elevate Moyet above others with equally good voices. Even when she verges on melodrama – and on "For You Only" she reaches it – Moyet shows no shame. She rocks back on her heels and lets fly.
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For all the power in that incredible voice, Moyet has an impressive lightness of touch, deftly drawing out scenes of heartbreak, love and redemption with deceptive ease. As a lyricist, too, Moyet shines on The Turn.
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What more can be said about Alison Moyet that hasn't already been said? Everyone knows she's Britain's finest voice. Everyone knows she was one of the major players of the 80s but then strangely fell out of favour with the record buying public as a whole and ... her cloth-eared old record company (Sony, of course...).... but whatever happened to Alf after all this?
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[O]verall, it was an experiment that paid off and showcased Moyet’s spectacular voice at its very best. Laid bare with a solo violin for Windmills Of Your Mind, for instance, those husky vocals are almost mesmerising.
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