After she made a very successful attempt with Hometime (2002) to target a younger audience by means of trip-hop influences, singer Alison Moyet sought success with her peers with Voice (2004), where she threw herself with a string orchestra into a number of diverse covers from the world of classical, jazz, folk and French chanson. Apparently she liked this so much, because the strings were allowed
… to stay this time to devote themselves to the scores of Moyet's own songs, which in terms of atmosphere are very much an extension of Voice. As a composer, Moyet likes to be inspired by David Bowie (in the late 1970s), which leads to extremely fragile listening songs on the one hand and songs that come to a climax on the other hand, provided with the necessary bombast by the strings. Everyone already knows that Moyet has a hell of a voice, that she is a particularly gifted composer, as The Turn proves. (AD)more
