(Morning Star, February 28, 2010)
Album review
There was a distinct slice of the 1990s pop scene that Neneh Cherry owned - her recognisable sultry vocals smouldered their way through her early solo career and memorable collaborations.
So CirKus is lucky indeed to boast her among its ranks, but then it was a concept dreamed up by her husband Burt Ford.
A world of trip-hoppy weirdness, where regular sounds are distorted in their hall-of-mirrors production, CirKus are nothing if not experimental.
On Hardly Breathing, the relentless rhythm punches through the vocal, while on '80s-style Johnny iCon there's La Roux-style pop with a truly luxurious voice.
The high point has to be the title track, a mature and inspired European trip-hop track with warmth and heart, in which the "the sun comes shining through/the sun for me and you."
Definitely the star of the show.
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