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INTERVIEW
This is a review of Tropical Brainstorm
Croydon's most famous daughter has been conducting a five year love affair with Cuba and Brazil - long before Geri Halliwell shook a maraca - of which Tropical Brainstorm is the offspring, written and recorded both in cloudy Albion and the sultry south.The collision between MacColl's acerbic lyricism and the sensuous mundo Latino proves a winner, nowhere more so than on her current single In these shoes?, a slinky tale of hot passion and fanciful footwear destined to become a big hit, if not now then when it becomes an ad campaign theme for Adidas this summer.
Tracks like Mambo de la Luna and Nao Esperando follow the same upbeat curve in pursuit of MacColl's desire to make a "happy record", and narrative skills add laconic tales of internet porn and Amazonian lust. You can't keep a good misery down though, especially one on the rebound from a divorce, and Designer Life and Wrong again return us to familiar, forlorn MacColl territory like hangovers from a Carribean jaunt while the closer, Head, is a bluesy piece of escapism that shows there's more to MacColl than a spiky wordsmith. Mostly though the mood is upbeat, the playing crisp and the lyrics sharp as a stiletto heel. In these shoes? Why not?
NS
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