Hurricane (Grace Jones album)
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| Studio album by Grace Jones | ||||
| Released | November 3, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2004–07 | |||
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| Length | 48:40 (Hurricane) 50:26 (Hurricane – Dub) |
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Hurricane – Dub cover
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 72/100 |
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| AllMusic |    |
| BBC Music | Favourable |
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| Pitchfork | 7.5/10 |
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| The Village Voice | Favourable |
| World tour by Grace Jones | |
| Associated album | Hurricane |
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| Start date | January 19, 2009 |
| Legs | 5 |
| No. of shows | 31 |
Hurricane is the tenth studio album by singer Grace Jones, released in 2008, and her first album of new material in nineteen years.
Grace Jones' previous album, Bulletproof Heart, was released in 1989, and despite several comeback attempts throughout the 1990s, her next full-length record would be released almost two decades later. The singer had decided "never to do an album again", changing her mind only after meeting the music producer Ivor Guest via mutual friend Philip Treacy. After becoming acquainted, Guest played Jones a track he had been working on and she set her lyrics "Devil in My Life" to it. They ended up recording as many as 23 tracks and some of them might make up Jones' next album. In 2007 Guest announced that he and Jones had completed recording the album.
The album included a number of autobiographical songs, these included "This Is", "Williams' Blood" and "I'm Crying (Mother's Tears)". "Love You to Life" was another track based on real events and "Corporate Cannibal" referred to the subject of corporate capitalism. The title track was first recorded as a 1997 collaboration with Tricky under the title "Cradle to the Grave". "Well Well Well" was dedicated to the memory of Alex Sadkin, who had died in 1987, having co-produced three of Jones' 1980s albums. "Sunset Sunrise" ponders mankind's relationship with nature, and the final song, "Devil in My Life", was written after a party in Venice while Jones was standing in the corner observing partygoers. Four songs were ultimately removed from the track listing: "The Key to Funky" (co-written by Jones and Diane Pernet in the late '80s), "Body Phenomenon", "Sister Sister" and "Misery". Another track recorded by Jones, "Volunteer", was leaked in 2007 by Leslie Winer, together with "This", an early version of "This Is". Winer also asserted that she had written both songs with Joe Galdo in the early 1990s. Mainly with Sly and Robbie, Wally Badarou, Barry Reynolds, Mikey Chung and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, aka the Compass Point Allstars as a backbone, the album retained the reggae-influenced sound of her three Compass Point albums even though it was not recorded at the legendary studios in the Bahamas.
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