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INTERVIEW
This is a review of Tropical Brainstorm
16 March (4 stars)
In which the wry, permaglum songstress lets loose her Latin side and makes the best album of her career. Tropical Brainstorm is funny, clever and sexy - the things MacColl has always been at her best - but the world rhythms give her sound a warmth that was often lacking before. Many of the songs are about travel, something MacColl has been doing a lot, but they explore the loneliness of travelling as much as its thrills. Authumngirlsoup has her "crying over London with a heart on fire but noone home", while Us Amazonians, which fantasises about jungle life, is bittersweet. Other songs are straightforwardly funny - Here comes that man again may be the first song ever written about logging on to a Dutch porn website. I just can't help looking, purrs MacColl, before doing a delicious Primal Scream parody, "Sha la la la la get your rocks off baby" she trills. Brilliant.
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