Wit, liveliness and crackling musical ideas, jumping between global genres with relish – Kirsty MacColl’s third album, Electric Landlady, has all of them. It also has quite the title, as her friend and occasional songwriting partner Johnny Marr writes over e-mail. “We spent a lot of time together [then] hanging out, listening to records late at night and then making our own records during marathon recording sessions. I lived in her flat in Shepherds Bush which is how we came up with ’Electric Landlady’”.

Many collaborations light up this LP. The defiant country swing of All I Ever Wanted was a result of a writing partnership by post, exchanging tapes with American musician Marshall Crenshaw. He Never Mentioned Love, written with The Pogues’ Jem Finer, is a more mature, wry take on Kirsty’s earlier girl group-flavoured pop. The Hardest Word, written with her older brother, Hamish, is also about their late father, the renowned folk singer Ewan, with whom she had a tough relationship.

Pressed up on 180g audiophile vinyl, half speed mastered from the original analogue tapes by Phil Kinrade at AIR studios.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Walking Down Madison

Kirsty MacColl

2.All I Ever Wanted

Kirsty MacColl

3.Children of the Revolution

Kirsty MacColl

4.Halloween

Kirsty MacColl

5.My Affair

Kirsty MacColl

6.Lying Down

Kirsty MacColl

7.He Never Mentioned Love

Kirsty MacColl

8.We'll Never Pass This Way Again

Kirsty MacColl

9.The Hardest Word

Kirsty MacColl

10.Maybe It's Imaginary

Kirsty MacColl

11.My Way Home

Kirsty MacColl

12.The One and Only

Kirsty MacColl

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