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Sep 6, 2011No one intones like the stentorian Warhol muse -- and then she breaks into vibrato-driven song, throbbing and strong.
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Sep 7, 2011F*ck Hurricane Irene - Hurricane Grace is this year's force to be reckoned with.
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Sep 8, 2011Her throaty vocals and winsome lyrics recall the Jamaican patois and patience of her youth, while the title track shows off a Grace Jones delighting in a frightening form of future-forward decadence.
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Sep 21, 2011Hurricane is her first new album since 1989, and it's her best ever.
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Sep 6, 2011Hurricane Dub is the original album chopped and screwed and recorded at the bottom of the sea, all murky bass, Jones' deep voice and rasta-twangy guitar.
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Sep 6, 2011For longtime fans, a dubbed-out Grace Jones begets an exotic retelling of her myth, like painting a Sherman tank in watercolours - sure it's pretty, but under those runny dub brushstokes is hidden a killing machine.
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It is, without a doubt, the work of a superstar returning from the shadows.
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UncutIt bubbles with conviction, the mock-fearsome, statuesque diva loading her lyrics with Prince-like panche. [Nov 2008, p.105]
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It may sound beside the point to exclaim that Jones sounds as good as she looks, or vice versa, but she's always been as attentive to her image as her performance, so I don't think she'd take issue with me praising Hurricane by calling it as lean, mean, and close to the bone as she herself remains.
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The cast includes Sly & Robbie, Brian Eno, Tricky, Wendy & Lisa, and aristocratic former lover Ivor Guest, who brings his experience as a soundtrack composer to an album rich with cinematic splendor.
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Jones has always savored extremes, and here, she's alternately demonic (the toothy gleam of 'Corporate Cannibal') and angelic (the gloriously autobiographical 'Williams' Blood').
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Sep 6, 2011The new versions amp up the bass and echo, often sounding like the original album when heard from a particularly foreboding shower stall.
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Entertainment WeeklySep 29, 2011Get down, demon lady! [Sep 2011, p.137]
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Sep 6, 2011Jones co-wrote all the material, and it shrewdly plays to her age and experience (she's 63), like a latter-day Marianne Faithfull with a Jamaican tinge and more of a bellow than a croak.
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Hurricane is classic Jones.
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Sep 9, 2011All in all, Hurricane is a worthy collection of music for Jones at this point of her career; we should hope it's the start of a new era for the icon rather than just a one-off release.
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In revisiting the production of her '80s records she paradoxically produces something that sounds timeless.
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While never as life-changing as these memories clearly were, Hurricane succeeds in its sheer force of conviction.
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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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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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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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It starts strongly, but peters out, delivering a kind of Sealed Knot of Jones' classic style.
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80s clubland legend Grace Jones returns with Hurricane, a patchy but fascinating comeback record.
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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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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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The Wire'Corporate Cannibal' is the exception, and Jones, a miracle of nature at Meltdown, proves more fallible on Hurricane. [Nov 2008, p.64]
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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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