After a few hits in the late 80s, Tanita Tikaram quickly disappeared from the European charts, but the British pop / folk singer has always kept making albums. Almost three decades after her biggest success, the indestructible , the now 46-year-old Tikaram sounds exactly as you would expect without any prior knowledge. Her ninth studio album contains ten songs of the kind you love to hear in the
… lobby of the better hotel; beautifully sung with Tikaram's smooth, light brown voice, neatly played, a lick of jazz here and there and - above all - in no way offensive. Opener Glass Love Train is also the greatest asset: a catchy love song with clarinet and flute, which in turn reminds of by and from . Unfortunately, the rest of Closer To The People tends most towards the noncommittal Sting sound as we know it from more recent years. (RME)more
