Tanita Tikaram - Ancient Heart (1988)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 245 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 103 MB | Covers - 41 MB
Genre: Pop Rock, Folk, Singer-Songwriter | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: WEA Records (2292-43877-2)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 245 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 103 MB | Covers - 41 MB
Genre: Pop Rock, Folk, Singer-Songwriter | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: WEA Records (2292-43877-2)
Singer/songwriter Tanita Tikaram's debut album, Ancient Heart, stands as one of the most underappreciated albums of the 1980s, and she, along with Tracy Chapman, preceded the 1990s' onslaught of female singer/songwriters by almost a decade. Tikaram, who was only 19 when this album was released, created a melancholy and wistful work, mature beyond her years, of startling originality and honesty. While this album may be considered folkish and artsy, it never stoops to the clichés that dominated those styles of music in the later Lilith Fair years. Her near perfect signature song "Twist in My Sobriety" is a stark, sinuous, desperate torch song that managed to garner a bit of radio and video airplay in its day and sounded like nothing else then or since…