Amy Winehouse – Back to Black Half-Speed Master Vinyl

It doesn’t take much listening to Amy Winehouse’s 1960s pop period piece to realize that this is a tribute with an edge–nice girls back then didn’t sing about boozing and rehab. Since her 2003 debut album FRANK Winehouse has been a frequent presence on the gossip pages of the U.K. tabloids and her songwriting here candidly reflects her experiences with drinking sex and drugs. BACK TO BLACK’s production is an artful blend of sophisticated ’60s RB and 21st-century stylistic poaching with “Tears Dry on Their Own” incorporating elements of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and Winehouse sounding like Billie Holiday fronting a reggae band on the old-fashioned cheating song “Just Friends.” Densely packed with musical history and often conjuring a dark Portishead-esque atmosphere BACK TO BLACK is a sumptuous-sounding collection freighted with blunt confessionals of a lush life.Musical Genre: Pop
Size: LP
Colour: Black
Artist: Amy Winehouse