Duffy är tillbaka. Med förra albumet, debutalbumet, vann den nu 26-åriga walesiskan en grymma för Best Pop Vocal Album.
Soulrösten från Wales är nu tillbaka med albumet ”Endlessly” som är något mer diskodans-inriktat fast med några lugnare akustiska spår också.
DN:s recensent Nanushka Yeaman ger betyg 3 och retar sig framför allt på samplingen av C & C Music Factorys monsterhit ”Gonna make you sweat” från 1990. Nanushka Yeaman menar att Duffy kvaddar låten med sitt nasala ”Well, well, well”-riff.
Även ”My boy” är ohyggligt påfrestande, skriver DN. Där skiljer min uppfattning sig från deras recensent. ”My boy” som är inledningsspåret tycker jag är ett av de bästa spåren, en upptempolåt som är skön att dansa till.
The Roots som kompband, Albert Hammond som låtskrivare och Duffy som sångerska – det blir en godkänd uppföljare till ”Rockferry”.
Duffy berättar själv om bakgrunden till nya albumet i pressmaterialet:
Unsure how to progress and what her next movements were to be, fate intervened in the unlikely form of 66-year-old Albert Hammond. Or, to be more precise, Albert Hammond’s wife. “He was in his house in LA one day and his wife went ‘Albert! Albert! Look at this girl on TV. She sounds like a black woman!’ And he looked and went ‘Oh my God’.” Duffy was performing ‘Stepping Stone’ on Saturday Night Live. Hammond hadn’t been involved in music for a decade, he hadn’t wanted to (perhaps he figured he’d leave that to his son, Albert Hammond Jr, of The Strokes) but he was intrigued. “He asked to meet. I had no idea about his background once again (similarly she didn’t know Suede when she met Bernard Butler). And he said I’ve got this song title ‘Don’t Forsake Me’. I said ‘That sounds like the soundtrack of my life’.
“Around that time in LA, there were always massive parties,” continues Duffy. “So I had a choice: I could either go dancing with Hollywood or go and hang with Albert. So I went to Albert’s house, and his wife made me tea.” Hammond had worked up some music to his ‘Don’t Forsake Me’ title, but Duffy wasn’t so sure (here’s one singer who certainly knows her own mind). “He’s 66, he’s the most esteemed songwriter and I had the balls and the audacity to start ripping it apart,” Duffy laughs. “I look back and think ‘How rude!’ But I knew this was a song that reflected some elements of my life. “Albert was, like, ‘Brave, kid. Well done’.”
From then on the songs came quickly – remarkably so, given the four-year gestation period of ‘Rockferry’. “We did a few days in LA, a week in Spain and a week here [London] and it was done swiftly” Duffy says. “We had these songs and in my heart they sounded so charming on acoustic demos. And that is what I needed to hear. No complications. You know, there is such a thing as working too hard. When everyone does too much you can kill something. But it was Albert and me having fun.”
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