Fuck. What a fuckin force. What a record.
That tap tap of shoes (?) coming on out, clipping into that beat, and Simone just fucking launches into it with the power of a thousand. She works around the song and spikes and howls and you're in, you're caught, you're bound, you're en thralled. Pure magic, pure blues, pure force. If this song doesn't grab you just go and fucking die, officially.
When the band comes in it's a tsumani, built to crush and to propel Simone to her pyrrhic destiny. Feel that flow, that interplay. This is how it's done, it's the ballet of dueling juggernauts, the majesty of cities crumbling under the weight of those complementing // opposed forces.
And you could stop at track 7 and have a hell of a thing.
But then, jesus mary and all the swears.
That immortal Strange Fruit that I won't disgrace with description.
Top 10 all time vocal performance, full stop.
And then Sinnerman, that wave of fire, that elemental force, the earth itself rising up and swallowing all of mankind in a slowmotion eruption of piano and voice and guitar and beats that can not be stopped will not be stopped.
All the flow, all the pace, all the power, all the nuance - one of the great records I've ever heard. Stunning, incomparable. 5/5
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