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...this straight: Sinead O'Connor, our favorite bald, Doc-Martened, Celtic provocateuse, is singing standards? With a 47-piece band...
...Connor vamps it up on "Why Don't You Do Right," a swing number whose conventional arrangement is only occasionally interrupted by her signature moans. Consider it the photographic negative of Madonna's Dick Tracy showboating...
...Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" is a spare arrangement over which O'Connor's luscious vocals are spread like nutella. It pays breathy homage to Billie Holiday's timing and Marilyn Monroe's sex appeal and is by far the best track on the album...
...Unfortunately, she is not as successful with "Black Coffee," a blues/jazz lament. Lines like "Woman's born to weep and fret/ To stay at home and tend her oven/And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarrettes" are delivered without irony, which is as shame since O'Connor doesn't believe this song and it shows...
...Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" is definitely the weak link on this album because O'Connor's vocals get lost in the screaming trumpets of Doug Katsaros' neo-bop arrangement...