Diamanda collaborates with John Paul Jones (the Led Zeppelin bassist) here, and the result is, unsurprisingly, the most accessible of her records. It's still got shrieking and screaming, but for the most part it's nowhere near as abrasive as her other work. The problem here is not this accessible approach-- it's that most of the songs are simply templates for Diamanda to vocalize over. The best track on the album is "Dark End of the Street," because it is an actual song-- it is more than just a backing track with Diamanda singing over it. Overall, a fun listen, but nowhere near what it could have been.
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