BASILDON blues diva Alison Moyet worried she was in danger of inhabiting her own tribute act. So, goodbye traditional band line-up, hello again to her recording roots and the electronic palette of Yazoo.
First she recorded the all-new, all-electro The Minutes; next she revisited earlier work “as originally intended or with a new ear”, reworking them into sleek, programmed formats with John Garden and Sean McGhee, two men and their machines, on a tour that brought warmth and sensuality to the York last year.
Moyet’s shows, cherry-picked for this live album, drew on her music past and bang up to The Minutes, and if Filigree sums up up her theme of “beautiful minutes” mattering most as you grow older, then the retro new and resurrected old feed off each other, freshly reflective in 2013’s When I Was Your Girl, acutely unsure in the bluer Is This Love, more possessive in Only You.
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