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"Hot - like hot wings with hot chocolate in hell, uh-huh.."
What's my age again? Rufus, Bootsy, P-Funk, a little Hendrix and even some Beatle-psychedelia thrown in on the breakdowns. Big homages to pop/funk's earlier years, but these songs not only stand up on their own...they wave.
Macy's back with some lethal production (Darryl Swann & herself) and songwriting to go along with her cut-to-the-chase lyrics and those big cat-little cat vocal shenanigans. Macy's vocal is a department store of seemingly impromptu emotional acrobatics ranging from deliciously despondent to funk-happy to growlingly poignant. It rips through and wraps around each lyric with more ease, precision and dust than Crocodile Dundee in a Subaru Outback. Janice had her Southern Comfort, I could be convinced that this woman eats good red dirt for three days before a session.
The sex is amazing. And it seems that everybody's welcome to join in ("Sexual Revolution" and "Relating to a Psychopath"), just don't be there in the morning ("Harry"), and if you're too resistant you may be in deep with the girl ("Give Me All Your Lovin' or I Will Kill You"). A few more normal-subjected songs do cohabitate here as well, with great satisfaction for the hook-hungry: "Sweet Baby" will be certified, if not already, as well as "Boo" and "Forgiveness." The bohemian glass-stomping "Oblivion" fits in surprisingly nicely, swinging like the fiddler on the funkhouse roof. And as if to cue the end the party, the singer and her hosts literally resort to "Blowin' Up Your Speakers" before acquiescing by way of a soothing surprise track for the few who couldn't get their clothes on in time and missed their ride.
Macy. I dug her sound, her feel and her rhythm on the first disc, but that one's been tucked away, and the id now rules the rack. Damn the talk surrounding this performer's personal sitch - I say bow down. Keep feeding her whatever she needs to "share her freak with us all... cuz it's a beautiful thing."
Oh, and her last name's Gray, not that you'll need it.
review by Kyf Brewer
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