![]() ![]() In essence, she wants to be seen as relevant – and her partnership with Sigsworth offers that chance.Īlbum opener Horizon Flame highlights Sigsworth’s influence from the off, with its Björkesque Homogenic strings and beats pulsating in the background and producing something in-between experimentation and head-on pop. Instead, Moyet has determinedly gone out to produce something that asserts her musical talent and holds wide critical appeal. ![]() Many will still lazily associate Moyet with Yazoo, in turn making her an easy target for those clamouring for 1980s nostalgia and a return to old territory. Moyet’s point about producing an album that consciously shirks the desires of the market – and of middle-aged women – is telling. This has easily been my happiest studio experience.” She adds: “We have made an album mindless of industry mores that apply to middle-aged women and have shunned all talk of audiences, demographics and advert jazz covers. “Sigsworth returns me to a programmer’s world,” she says, “and marries it with perfect musicality. Indeed, even before listening, the minutes seems more of a paired effort than a purely solo one for Moyet – Sigsworth co-wrote and produced the entire album. While recording the minutes, her first solo album since 2007’s The Turn, Alison Moyet said she avoided listening to any music beyond the studio, so concerned was she that outside influences may push her vocals and music in unwanted directions. Instead, she wholly entrusted herself to the hugely versatile songwriter-producer Guy Sigsworth, famed for his work with Imogen Heap (Frou Frou), Björk and Madonna.
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