Melody
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Sharleen Spiteri
Release Date July 15, 2008
The brilliant Italian/Scottish songstress behind the widely known Glasgow rock band, Texas, emerges as a solo artist with her long awaited debut album "Melody".
Calling this her "Nancy Sinatra record", the Texas frontwoman unleashes a flurry of trumpets and parping saxophones. Her sultry, provocative voice sits well with Sixties soul.
Sharleen has clearly been dreaming about lush, melodramatic pop music from the fifties and sixties: Motown, Bacharach, The Shangri-Las, Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazelwood, Righteous Brothers.
It's hardly a revelation that Spiteri likes this sort of thing: she's been homaging Motown ("Black Eyed Boy"), channelling Marvin Gaye ("Say What You Want") and sampling Gainsbourg ("Guitar Song") with Texas for years.
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