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Jul 25, 2016Warm Leatherette was alternately more sanguine and more severe—a bracing confluence of reggae, new-wave, and post-punk that showcased Jones’ range as a performer and her uncanny, occasionally perverse vision as an interpreter of other people’s songs.
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Jul 25, 2016Spread over four LPs, this Warm Leatherette box set is an exhaustive compilation that thankfully doesn’t dip in quality for the wealth of what’s on offer. For any Grace Jones fans this is as definitive as it gets, though it will take some serious powers of discernment to differentiate between LP one and LP two.
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Jul 25, 2016Warm Leatherette is often considered a rehearsal for Nightclubbing but in some ways it’s the most radical of the pair, because it unveiled to a shocked audience the new-look Jones, presented on the sleeve in stark black and white as a kind of sinister Pierrot by her partner Jean-Paul Goude.
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Jul 25, 2016A great album and a fascinating document undoubtedly, but there’s no need to spend your hard earned on a boxset when the original does everything you need already.
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Jul 25, 2016Warm Leatherette provides the strongest mating of singer, band, and material.
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Nov 12, 2018
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Feb 6, 2018ARTEE, no entiendo como tiene un 81 pero a basuras actuales como melodrama de lordeforme le ponen un 90, que lógica.
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Jul 24, 2022