It hardly seems possible that Annie Lennox's solo career has gone longer than her time with The Eurythmics. And yet the Scottish-born singer has outlasted that group (not to mention her first band, The Tourists) and is serving up a new album, 15 years after her first solo effort.
Called "Songs of Mass Destruction," the album isn't as forbidding as its title suggests. A sentimentalist she's not, but there's more than a little hope for the future threading its way through the songs. Even in "Sing," a song about mother-to-child AIDS transmission in Africa (which gets vocal support from, among others, Madonna, Joss Stone, Gladys Knight, Beth Orton, Shakira, and Faith Hill), "let your voice be heard" is the exhortation.
Lennox's voice sounds as rich and assured as ever whether she's letting it rip or singing one of the killer ballads ("Dark Road," the single, or "Lost"). You can listen to the full album here.
written on Monday Oct 1, 2007
sweet dreams.
