Product Description

'The Turn' is former Yazoo's frontwoman Alison Moyet's seventh studio album. After the fraught and difficult legal battles that marred Moyet's recording career in the nineties andheralded the comeback album 'Hometime', this is her most mature and self assured album to date. Those famous vocals haven't faultered and remain timeless. This album highlights her range and variety of styles from blues to jazz. The album comes as a timely reminder of the gem that is Alison Moyet. Includes the single 'One More Time'.

Track Listing

1. One More Time
2. Any Time At All
3. The Man In The Wings
4. Can't Say It Like I Mean It
5. It's Not The Thing Henry
6. Fire
7. The Sharpest Corner (Hollow)
8. World Without End
9. Home
10. Smaller
11. A Guy Like You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2469 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 43 minutes

About the Artist
THE TURN is Alison Moyet's first album of original recordings in five years. It is a work of surprising variety and exceptional depth - drawn together by her remarkable voice - and is destined to take her career to even greater heights.

Never before has Moyet seemed as assured and at ease with her talents as on THE TURN. This surely marks a new chapter in the career of an artist who has captivated us for 25 years, selling in excess of 20 million albums and winning fans as diverse as Antony Hegarty and Tricky.

As soon as that familiar bluesy voice joins the solitary guitar in the opening bars of ONE MORE TIME, the listener knows that they are hearing something unique. And indeed there is an epic quality to this beautifully crafted album that comes in at just under 40 minutes. We make the journey from the soaring orchestration of ONE MORE TIME all the way to the quiet heartbreaking simplicity of SMALLER. Along the way we take in the darkness of FIRE and the longing of THE SHARPEST CORNER (HOLLOW), by way of the punchy guitar pop of IT'S NOT THE THING HENRY and the uplifting HOME (featuring the accordion legend Marcel Azzola).

For all the power in that incredible voice, Moyet has an impressive lightness of touch, deftly drawing out scenes of heartbreak, love and redemption with deceptive ease. As a lyricist, too, Moyet shines on THE TURN. Her maturity allows her to write songs that are heartfelt without slipping into sentimentality. The characters and situations she describes appear simultaneously to be utterly specific (the couple in ONE MORE TIME, the singer in THE MAN IN THE WINGS) yet paradoxically completely universal - we feel she could be writing about our lives and emotions. From 1994 Alison Moyet battled for eight years to be released from her recording contract with Sony so that she could pursue her own artistic vision. In 2002 that struggle was vindicated when she finally released HOMETIME, an accomplished work that achieved Gold status, earned her a BRIT Award nomination and saw her receive huge critical acclaim. It was followed in 2004 by VOICE, an album of covers that entered the chart in the Top Ten and went on to sell quarter of a million copies.

Yet all of that has been a prelude to this moment. THE TURN is a career-defining work, the album that Alison Moyet was born to write and record, and one that shows the artist at the very peak of her powers. With THE TURN Alison Moyet has demonstrated that she is truly one of our greatest artists.

Customer Reviews

Hometime continued
A great follow-up to Hometime (Voice was an interim project). This album does however combine the best bits of Hometime and blend them with Voice.

It's great to see one of the UK's most talented female singers finally giving us the material she's struggles to give us for year....Sony should be kicking themselves.

The album take a few more listens than Hometime but the tracks are outstanding...One More Time 5/5, Fire 5/5, Anytime at All 5/5....try a listen for yourself if you loved what Hometime started you won't be disappointed.

Keep it up Alison!

The usual high standard from Moyet.

None of Moyet's albums are ever a disappointment, and this is no exception which is what one has come to expect from singers of her calibre.

One or two tracks here are a reflection of her earlier material which will delight her older fans, who never really took to her later direction in singing style.

There are two or three very haunting tracks on this, and highlights are:

One More Time,
Anytime At All,
Fire,
The Sharpest Corner,
World Without End,
Home.

Dim the lights and let the curtain rise
The theatrical themed songs suit her voice perfectly, with stand out numbers One More Time, The Man In The Wings and Sharpest Corner (Hollow). A quality album by an undervalued artist.