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'Love Tattoo' opens the doors into the multi-genre marketplace; May's way is varied and bloody fantastic, she brings jazz back to the masses with her sensational take on the genre - rockabilly, swing, rockin' interludes, blues excursions and just a touch of pop sensibility!
'Love Tattoo' is enlightened contemporary jazz for the open minded rather than the connoisseur; it's a intriguing and compelling album of classy songs given the complete Imelda May treatment. This lady is a class act; her flowing but gritty vocalisation is as breathtaking as it is original. Jazz is no longer a genre for just the buff - jazz, in the hands of Imelda May, is for anyone and everyone with a discerning ear and a mind for good music. 'Love Tattoo' is radio friendly, you can listen to it anywhere and at any time, it can be your chill out for the evening or it can be your party starter - it's an album for our times and for the future - Imelda May ensures that jazz has a new life-line and she'll take a lot of stoppin' as she pushes heartily at the jazz envelope. Brilliant this, absolutely brilliant!!
Imelda May's deliciously rampant take on jazz is invigorating, intoxicating and pretty damn addictive; May breaths new life into the form, she injects commerciality, she makes it approachable and accessible. 'Love Tattoo' is a magnificent album from the new lady of modern jazz; 'Love Tattoo' may generate waves of unrest amongst the jazz purists who'll think that Imelda May is just taking things too far with her smart melding of forms. But, if there's gonna be dissenters, there'll be a lot more who'll totally get off on Imelda May's wonderful music - the lady's got a magical touch and she uses it to great effect on 'Love Tattoo' to show us the way, to enlighten and embolden us.
A wonderfully exotic sounding album, Imelda May's 'Love Tattoo' is exciting, visionary, inspired - fan-bloody-tastic!!
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