Friday, December 16, 2011

Amy Winehouse - ‘Halftime’


Be still all beating hearts, the third leak of four unheard tracks from Lioness: Hidden Treasures. That tortured romantic with a blasé contralto, she swags her sh*t out all over this Salaam Remi production.

Recorded in 2002 during the ‘Frank’ sessions – and you can hear it can’t you?

Velvety layers of electric piano and clarinet over an instantly discernible, impeccably swung ?uestlove drum groove. Plus that floaty outro from 3.20: one can get actual feelings of uplift and agony as the record makes it’s little ascension up, dissipating into a recording hiss. All a powerful reminder of Amy exercising her fondness for that Soulaquarian period in music.

On repeat.

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