Alice Russell - To Dust

Format: 2xLP, Album

Media Condition:  Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
Country:    UK  
Released:  2021-07-09
Genre:       Funk / Soul
Style:         Neo Soul

Comments:
Factory sealed brand spanking new

With due respect to fans of Amy Winehouse and Adele, songstress Alice Russell is the true blue-eyed soul queen from the UK. The Essex singer has been around longer than either. Despite four previous albums, she's better known as a collaborator. Her résumé includes work with Mr. Scruff, DJ Yoda, Nostalgia '77, David Byrne, Fat Freddy's Drop, and most notably with Quantic. She possesses the firepower and range of Aretha Franklin and the intensity of Nina Simone. Russell is not a retro-soul singer. She's a soul singer. Period. She has always been more contemporary than nostalgic, her music imbued with more hip-hop, hard funk, dance music, and even jazz rhythms than Motown worship, but it's still rooted in deep soul and R&B. To Dust, her fifth album, is easily her most consistent offering.  In Russell's world, music is as important as lyric and vocal delivery. This band, time and again, provides a swaggering, unshakeable foundation that gives her and her backing chorus everything they need -- and more -- to lift off. No matter what she's singing, Russell is invested. Emotion, whether happy, sad, devastated, angry, or ecstatic, is revealed not with mere vocal histrionics, but with Russell trusting her the song to guide her voice, telling her what it needs to resonate organically. To Dust is body music for the spirit, a celebration of all that is human. It is the record that should finally put her over to a mass audience. God knows she deserves it. (AMG)

Playlist

Notes:

Comes in gatefold sleeve and has a download card

A1. A To Z 1:31
A2. Heartbreaker Pt. 2 3:30
A3. For A While 4:52
A4. Heartbreaker 3:41
A5. I Loved You Interlude 0:34
B1. Hard And Strong 4:04
B2. To Dust 3:11
B3. I Loved You 3:57
B4. Twin Peaks 4:30
B5. Heartbreaker Interlude 1:16
C1. Let Go (Breakdown) 3:15
C2. Drinking Song Interlude 2:02
C3. Citizens 2:45
C4. Different (Bonus Tracks) 5:21
C5. I Loved You (acoustic) 4:17
D1. I’m The Man That Will Find You 4:12
D2. Heartbreaker (Sefi Zisling Remake) 4:15
D3. I Loved You (anushka’s Wild Hearts Remix) 5:45

Mixed At The Way Studios
Recorded At The Way Studios
Recorded At Stag Studios
Phonographic Copyright (p) Tru Thoughts
Copyright (c) Tru Thoughts
Published By Full Thought Publishing
Published By 5MM Publishing
Published By Concord Copyrights