Alf (Alf - Alison Moyet)

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Product:	Alf - Alison Moyet
Date:	16/06/08 (6 review reads)
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The combination of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke (then ex-Depeche Mode) to form Yazoo was an odd one. Clarke was a master of electronic music and Moyet a singer with a voice more suited to blues or jazz. That they blended into such a successful act was amazing. However after an all too brief partnership Yazoo split and Alison Moyet was left to forge a solo career whilst Clarke went into Erasure with Andy Bell after an even briefer time in Assembly with Feargal Sharkey.

Sadly though Moyet was not to have the success her voice deserved and perhaps that was due more to the choice of music than her own contribution. Of the tracks on this album only 'All Cried Out' stands out, the others are too ordinary. 'Invisible' was a single but was pretty dull. 'Love Resurrection' is too contrived and forced. The slower numbers like 'Where Hides Sleep' are soporific rather than terrific.
I feel quite sad to write this but like many people I love Alison Moyet's voice but have to ask where were the albums after this. I am sure that of all the people who bought this album very few bought anything by her after it. Again I have to say it is choice of music. She later had a hit with Floy Joy's 'Deep In The Presence Of Beauty' but her version was stale compared to the simple beauty of the original.

Its probably too late now, Alison is probably settled into domestic bliss somewhere singing to no-one but her children, lucky them.

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