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Fabiana Palladino: Fabiana Palladino review – sublime 80s pop innovation meets 21st-century chaos
The musician’s long-gestating debut album melds killer tunes to grimy distortion and the scuffed gloss of Jam and Lewis-era Janet Jackson, and marks the flowering of an original pop voice
Few figures in 21st-century pop seem to have achieved so much by doing so little as Paul, who has managed to garner an extraordinary reputation – the Guardian has described him as both “era-defining” and “a once-in-a-lifetime talent” – despite the fact that he’s only released three official singles in a music career that stretches back to 2007. Photograph: XL RecordingsThe official line is that Palladino’s eponymous debut album took so long to arrive as a result of its author’s perfectionism, an excuse that’s surprisingly easy to believe when you hear it. It’s a situation that you might decry as nepotistic if Fabiana Palladino was a luxuriously appointed dud, but she’s nothing of the sort: the presence of some august blue chip musicians can’t account for how good the songs here are.
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