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Kate Pierson: Radios & Rainbows review – bops, balls and belles from B-52s singer
Pierson’s mellifluous vocals radiate positivity in a dozen bouncy tracks that skip giddily between electro-pop, rock, dance and disco
At 76, Pierson’s voice is still recognisably that of Love Shack; these dozen tracks, recorded with some of David Bowie’s later-period musicians, giddily skip between electro pop, Bangles-y rock, dance and disco. Her activism fires empowerment anthem Higher Place (“Battles that incite a riot in us / Taking the truth denied to us”) and Dream On quotes from Patti Smith’s People Have the Power. The deepest undercurrents are on The Beauty of It All, a very personal song about how meeting her wife Monica saved Pierson from a bad relationship that sums up the album’s purpose: “When you’re feeling down, I’ll be there.”
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