Artist: Imelda May | Album: Tribal | Released: 2014 | Label: Decca | Catalog #: 3763558 | Genre: Rock, Rock and Roll | Country: Ireland | Duration: 00:40:47
Dubliner Imelda May has done handsomely out of planting herself at the junction where rockabilly, burlesque and street-corner sassiness meet, and her fourth album doesn’t tinker with the recipe. There’s no need: Tribal’s title track, in fact, alludes to the pleasures of existing outside music’s mainstream. In May’s hands, rockabilly is a feral form, vitally alive and compelling. When she really gets her teeth into a song, it’s impossible not to be swept away by the whirlwind of pounding percussion, rootsy guitar and ravenous vocals – the two opening tracks are a lesson in ferocity. (And the second, Wild Woman, an essay in primal female desire: “I knew a girl once upon a time/ She grew into a werewolf/ That monster was all mine/ She was incarcerated inside my skin”). The real stunners, though, are the slow-burners: Gypsy in Me and Wicked Way are nuanced blues numbers, the latter made deliciously sleazy by B-movie trumpet fills; the delicacy of Little Pixie, inspired by first-time motherhood, is charming rather than sickly. This album is no time capsule; it’s fresh and bracing.
Tracklisting:
01. Tribal
02. Wild Woman
03. It’s Good to Be Alive
04. Gypsy in Me
05. Little Pixie
06. Hellfire Club
07. Five Good Men
08. Ghost of Love
09. Wicked Way
10. Round the Bend
11. I Wanna Dance
12. Right Amount of Wrong
Single download
Imelda May – Tribal 
Imelda May – Wild Woman
Imelda May – It’s Good to Be Alive
Imelda May – Gypsy in Me
Imelda May – Little Pixie
Imelda May – Hellfire Club
Imelda May – Five Good Men
Imelda May – Ghost of Love
Imelda May – Wicked Way
Imelda May – Round the Bend
Imelda May – I Wanna Dance
Category:Rock
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