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Q Review: Like
The Housemartins before them, The Beautiful South have all but taken up
residency in the singles chart in their brief lifespan-a fact not entirely
unconnected to their facility in banging out naggingly sweet and simple
pop melodies delivered by the croonsome duo of Paul Heaton and David
Hemingway. An added bonus on their second LP is the presence of guest
vocalist Brianna Corrigan, whose wonderful heartstopping singing voice
could surely melt icebergs at 50 paces. As on last year's debut, Beautiful
South (1989) songs tinker playfully with the formulae, conventions and
cliches of pop songwriting-peer beneath the crystalline surface glow of
those pop nuggets and you are confronted by a murky undertow of domestic
violence, aberrant behaviour and more than a smidgeon of grim black humour.
Already boasting one Top 5 hit in the priceless Need A Little Time, the LP
is strewn with plenty of songs itching to follow its upward trajectory,
particularly the spendid ballad Let Love Speak Up For Itself, the
psychedelic soul goove of Tonight I Fancy Myself, and the disconcertingly
gentle pop tones of I Think The Answer's Yes (the burning of The Stock
Exchange/and bombing of The Press/I think the answer's yes). Good to know
that Paul Heaton hasn't gone soft on us. London 0, Hull 5.**** (4
STARS)
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