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Review by Johnny Black, originally appeared in HiFi News
Delayed by the tragic death of her saxophonist husband Jason Rae in 2008, Corinne Bailey Rae's second album is a triumph of courage over despair. Inevitably, listeners will interpret these songs, especially the tortured I'd Do It All Again, as being about him, but those who can get past the grisly voyeuristic fascination with Bailey Rae as a tortured victim of life's injustice will find an imaginative and movingly beautiful album that stands head and shoulders above the pack on its own merits. The timbre and texture of her lovely voice, as well as her control of it, have improved since her debut, and she is now a mistress of understatement, as cool as Astrud Gilberto and as smooth as Sade but with rather more grit.
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Delayed by the tragic death of her saxophonist husband Jason Rae in 2008, Corinne Bailey Rae's second album is a triumph of courage over despair. Inevitably, listeners will interpret these songs, especially the tortured I'd Do It All Again, as being about him, but those who can get past the grisly voyeuristic fascination with Bailey Rae as a tortured victim of life's injustice will find an imaginative and movingly beautiful album that stands head and shoulders above the pack on its own merits. The timbre and texture of her lovely voice, as well as her control of it, have improved since her debut, and she is now a mistress of understatement, as cool as Astrud Gilberto and as smooth as Sade but with rather more grit.