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Swing Out Sister: Get in Touch with Yourself

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Label: Phongram Records (London)
Released: 1992.05.01
Time:
 57:23
Category: Acid Jazz
Producer(s): See Artists...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.swingoutsister.com
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Purchase date: 2009.04.03
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Get in Touch With Yourself (Drewery) - 5:08
[2] Notgonnachange (Drewery) - 4:56
[3] Am I the Same Girl (Record/Sanders) - 4:07
[4] Everyday Crime (Connell/Drewery/O'Duffy) - 5:03
[5] Who Let the Love Out (Drewery) - 4:40
[6] I Can Hear You But I Can't See You [instrumental] (Swing Out Sister) - 4:04
[7] Understand (Swing Out Sister) - 5:16
[8] Circulate (Connell/Drewery) - 4:58
[9] Love Child (O'Duffy) - 4:57
[10] Incomplete Without You (O'Duffy) - 4:42
[11] Don't Say a Word (Swing Out Sister) - 4:06
[12] Everyday Crime [instrumental] (Connell/Drewery/O'Duffy) - 5:52

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Andy Connell - Keyboards, Vocals
Corinne Drewery - Vocals
Derek "Castro" Johnson - Bass Guitar, Vocals

Gary Barnacle - Flute, Saxophone
Tim Cansfield - Guitar
Snake Davis - Flute, Horn, Saxophone
Nigel Hitchcock - Saxophone
John Thirkell - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Luis Jardim - Percussion
Chris Manis - Percussion
Gavyn Wright - Leader
Myke Wilson - Vocals
William Malone - Arranger, Conductor

Erica Harrold - Background Vocals
Beverley Skeete - Background Vocals

Paul Staveley O'Duffy - Producer
Stuart James - Producer

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1991 CD Fontana 314-512241-2
1991 CS Fontana 314-512241-4
1992 CD Polygram 512241
1992 CS Polygram 512241

Although Swing Out Sister is currently a duo, they began as a trio in the UK. The group was formed by Andy Connell (keyboards) and Martin Jackson (drums), and were later joined by Corinne Drewery (vocals). (The name came from a 1945 movie starring Arthur Treacher, called Swing Out, Sister.) Both Connell and Jackson had been playing in other bands prior to forming SOS, while Drewery was actually a fashion designer before she became the band's lead vocalist.

In May 1992, their retro orientation became even more evident in both their sound and image on their third album, "Get In Touch With Yourself". With strong dance rhythms reverberating throughout the entire album, tracks draw influences from '60s and '70s jazz, pop, soul, and funk, including a breezy cover of the Dusty Springfield classic "Am I The Same Girl?". The album's title track, a blend of '70s soul music and modern pop, gained the duo heavy airplay on smooth-jazz radio. The musical influences of Stevie Wonder, The Jackson Five, and others would become evident on this album but continue on through their later releases. In line with the album theme, Drewery also grew out her hair from her trademark bob which had become a visual signature for their early years.



Sauve, alluring penthouse pop from this U.K. on its third. Highlights include the irresistible "Am I the Same Girl," the instrumental "Soulful Strut," the elegant "Notgonnachange" and "Understand" while "Everday Crime" has a groove Shaft would dig.

Jeff Bateman - Amazon.com



For their debut album Swing Out Sister fit in snuggly with the British sophisti-pop scene while on their follow-up they added more vintage lounge and 1960s spy soundtrack touches to what was essentially a 1980s synth pop sound. For Get in Touch With Yourself the band bring together the two approaches, making this a more sonically creative album than It's Better to Travel while at times fitting into mainstream adult contemporary more easily than Kaleidoscope World. Get in Touch With Yourself is also a stronger album overall than either, with a better-written batch of songs, including the title track, "Notgonnachange," and "Am I the Same Girl," an old '60s dancefloor hit that was rediscovered (and much sampled) after Swing Out Sister resurrected it here. For all the album's strengths, however, it shows how the band was trapped between two worlds at the early stage of their career: the retro-futurist instrumentals and sonic flourishes on Get in Touch With Yourself are probably too adventurous for mass appeal while the album is too slick, airbrushed, and tied into modern adult contemporary to draw in alternative listeners. In a way, this has always been Swing Out Sister's problem -- they're either too hip or too square...and often at the same time. The songs from this album that are featured on their next release, the import-only Live at the Jazz Cafe, are infinitely more appealing and exciting than the versions heard here. Thankfully, after this album, the band would be able to bring that level of excitement to their studio albums as well. Sadly, this would cost the band any label or radio support even as the quality of their studio work improved immeasurably.

Nick Dedina - All Music Guide

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