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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 40
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Mixed: 1 out of 40
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Negative: 3 out of 40
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