ANNIE LENNOX
OF all the things you might expect from a new album by Annie Lennox, a song featuring both Celine Dion and former Belle And Sebastian chanteuse Isobel Campbell probably isn’t high up on the list. Yet it’s here: Sing is a Lennox-trademark Aids benefit song, “a call for the national implementation of [a] mother-to-child prevention programme in all the maternity hospitals in South Africa” according to the sleeve notes.
Aside from the 23-strong choir featuring Campbell and Dion (as well as everyone from Madonna and Sugababes to Martha Wainwright and Bonnie Raitt), it’s like almost everything else here:
convinced of its own preening self-importance, and replete with fortune cookie wisdom.
There are moments where such complaints melt away, such as Ghosts In My Machine and the crunchy, electronic melodies of Coloured Bedspread, but they are rare respite from the trite, sloganeering rest.
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