Reuben's Thread feat. Rachael Rachael - Colour Me Blue
Reuben’s Thread feat. Rachael Rachael
Colour Me Blue
MySpace was responsible for bringing these two disparate artists
together, which just shows that social networking sites can be useful for stuff
other than downloading that John Barnes goal against Brazil in the Maracana and
seeing how fat your old school bully has gotten. Rachael Rachael, in fact, was
signed to Sony before splitting from the label. Amazing that she was, given
some of the dreck the Japanese giants pump out on a weekly basis.
Whatever the circumstances, Colour
Me Blue has been out a good few months but deserves a review on the
strength of the frontwoman’s voice alone. It’s divine, like sucking up melted
Galaxy chocolate through a straw made of gold. Mellow Bird’s would taste like
it had been percolated in a long-distance trucker’s pants compared to how rich
and smooth the vocals are. In effect, we’re talking about a real soul find –
not in an annoying Joss Stone kind of way, but in an honest, talented way.
Not forgetting Reuben’s Thread, the mysterious engine room. He’s a real
whiz on the old classical guitar, accompanying RR finely. ‘Are You Happy Now’
is a lovely ballad, as they all are on this debut, but…you knew there was one
coming.
There just isn’t a market for this kind of music at the moment, tuneful
as it may be. Coffee bar soul had its heyday in London sometime in the
mid-to-late eighties, and although Sadé got an MBE or whatever, she’s not done
much lately, has she? It’s a shame because Colour
Me Blue is a decent, solid LP that deserves to be heard.
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