Now who else will follow suit and stand up to the bullies? Strength in numbers. Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. By Gil Kaufman. Copied to clipboard. Click to copy. Artists Mentioned. As Baker grew older, though, her love of gospel would merge with a deepening interest in jazz, her attention lingering on singers whose voices twisted like corkscrews, like her idol, Sarah Vaughan.
Disillusioned, she drifted away from the music industry, waiting tables and briefly working as a receptionist for a law firm. She only returned to singing when she was courted by a new label called Beverly Glen, with whom she released her debut solo album, The Songstress , in Baker seems affected by it herself throughout the record, sometimes slipping into vocalese as the songs advance, words melting into vowels, phrases going liquid then solid again.
Despite these traces of retro in the music, very little of Rapture sounded old by the standards of Each note touches down as an isolated unit of clarity, though the instruments are also steeped in enough reverb to sound like they recently walked out of a lake, their footfalls wrapped in wet echoes.
It is not necessarily trying to emulate old soul music, even though it is certainly music with an old soul. Rapture is like a home Baker built, a hearth, a warm safe place where both the mystery of love and the history of Black music can be both explored and preserved.
Her stage presence was surprisingly exuberant, more so than the narcotic pull of her voice would necessarily suggest. She swung her arms around, grasping handfuls of air or strumming it as if she were able to touch her own music as it streamed by. Catch up every Saturday with 10 of our best-reviewed albums of the week.
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