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Sep 30, 2011Although Guest's interpretations work well as an accompaniment piece, it's the return-to-form original (also included here in its entirety) which remains the more essential listen.
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80s clubland legend Grace Jones returns with Hurricane, a patchy but fascinating comeback record.
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MojoSep 29, 2011Here, the tunes are dubbed to within an inch of their lives, reduced to fiddly-for-fiddling's-sake electronic bleeps and riffs. [Oct 2011, p.100]
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MojoJones's fans with long memories will certainly want to hear the first four tracks, but the robustness, of sound, modernity of arrangement and cool, hard, clarity of distinctive delivery that once suggested her style would always sound fresh just fades away. [Nov 2008, p.110]
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Sep 1, 2011Even when she strays into overwrought moodiness during the disc's trip-hoppy second half, her menacing omnipotence has a way of willing you onward.
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Hurricane shatters the illusion, and flattens the force of nature known as Grace Jones into something quite humdrum.
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Sep 7, 2011It's good enough to warrant the inevitable "return to form" and "comeback" labels, good enough to make you appreciate Jones all over again. Take a step back, though, and it is far from perfect. At times it escapes embarrassment by the skin of its teeth.
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Q MagazineFor the most part it's a decent but needless reworking of her Compass Point trilogy of albums from the early '80s. [Nov 2008, p.117]
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It starts strongly, but peters out, delivering a kind of Sealed Knot of Jones' classic style.
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The Wire'Corporate Cannibal' is the exception, and Jones, a miracle of nature at Meltdown, proves more fallible on Hurricane. [Nov 2008, p.64]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 40
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