Rotherham’s charismatic Rebecca Lucy Taylor returns for a third LP of empowering therapy-themed full-on gospel harmonies and dance music styles with lyrics that are earthily honest, filthy, sweary, humorously emotional, philosophical and entertaining. “If I’m so empowered why am I such a coward?” comes the refrain of opener I Do And I Don’t Care, after a spoken word introduction, encapsulating some of her many very honest contradictions, wrapped in rich vocal arrangements. Focus Is Power is an uplifting boost, while Mother is something of a cheeky, bitchy diss song with a clubby beat to someone overdependent (“I’m not your mother”). The Curse is not the only track to liberally use the F-word to entertaining effect, especially when done so with in this power pop number such aplomb by the gospel chorus, capturing a relationship with alcohol conundrum: “I wouldn’t do it if it didn’t fucking work .. but it really works, and that’s the curse.” Never one to hold back, 69 meanwhile is a sensual, full-on explicit, catchy, dance track about her least favourite sexual position, but with many others listed in detail. There are some contrasting and intriguing guest cameos from Sue Tompkins on Logic, Bitch! the low, rich voice of Nadine Shah on the caustic Lies, and the high, distinctive found of South Africa’s Moonchild Sanelly on In Plain Sight, but perhaps the highlight spots belong to the uplifting closer The Deep Blue Okay (“And I have my doubts, but know I'll always work it out…”), and the wonderfully uplifting, empowered, hopeful, string-accompanied If Not Now, It’s Soon (“And we can work together to become who's in your heart”). Both complicated and simple, it’s taken gloriously it to the max. Out on Polydor/Universal.
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