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Eight hours later, however, the 37-year-old lead vocalist of the once top-selling band INXS was found naked and dead, hanging by his neck from a belt attached to the self-closing mechanism of the door to his hotel room. Hutchence, a new father about to embark with his band on their 20th-anniversary tour last Tuesday, had apparently killed himself, a fact that many close to him are finding almost incomprehensible. "Everyone felt that if someone had called us and said, 'Michael overdosed,' we would have said, 'Jesus, we saw that coming 10 years ago,'" explained...
...drowning in a sea of strings and lugubrious arrangements. On past records, Connick's vocal limitations usually hid behind strong melodies or brisk rhythms. Here, though, his own billowy backgrounds draw attention to his earnest but colorless singing. Connick probably sees himself as a film star, jazz interpreter and vocalist. He's right--on two of those counts...
Just as D'Angelo is not exactly Marvin Gaye for the '90s, Billie Holiday incarnate Badu isn't. Certainly there will never be another Billie Holiday. What Badu is, though, is a gifted lyricist and vocalist who has a great knowledge of African-American music history, as well as a desire to innovate. On her live album she not only evokes Billie Holiday, Chaka Kahn, Roy Ayres and Miles Davis, but she also demonstrates an amazing originality and octave range. Live is a jazzy portrait of a charming Southern gal as funk goddess. Posing on the cover as a very...
...trip-hop, an arty European variant of hip-hop characterized by dreamy lyrics and lounging, lulling song structures. Portishead is another stellar work. While Dummy's sound was sweetened with recognizable melodic flavors drawn from R. and B. and gospel, the new album is stranger, more unsettling, more sour. Vocalist Beth Gibbons' voice is distorted on many of the tracks, stretched thin and left floating high and parched over shards of melody and jagged bits of rhythm. One song, All Mine, has a sound that might be described as big-band noir, with blaring horns and desperate, almost manic vocals...
...minutes, Juliana Hatfield has managed to redefine herself and move forward musically in a way that she has not since the 1993 release of Become What You Are. Not only is Hatfield the only vocalist who can sing "me" as a five syllable word, she is the only lyricist who is writing lines like "There's no such thing as pleasant conversation/it's all just drowning victims gasping for air." Keep gasping, Juliana...