Lioness: Hidden Treasures
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| Compilation album by Amy Winehouse | ||||
| Released | 2 December 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2002–11 | |||
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| Length | 45:13 | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 65/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | C+ |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
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| The Independent | |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.3/10 |
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| Slant Magazine | |
| Spin | 8/10 |
Lioness: Hidden Treasures is a compilation album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released on 2 December 2011 by Island Records. It was her third album and features unreleased songs and demos selected by Mark Ronson, Salaam Remi and Winehouse's family, including the first single, "Body and Soul", with Tony Bennett. The album was released in aid of the Amy Winehouse Foundation. "Our Day Will Come" was released as the album's second and final single on 4 December, and was Winehouse's first solo single to be released since 2007.
Lioness: Hidden Treasures was announced for release on 31 October 2011 via The Sun and Winehouse's official website.Island Records co-president Ted Cockle has emphasised that Lioness is not in any way the planned follow-up to Winehouse's album Back to Black (2006). In fact, only two songs intended for the planned follow-up had been completed prior to her death. The album is a compilation of recordings from before the release of Winehouse's debut album, Frank, in 2002, up to music she was working on in 2011.
Producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson collaborated, compiling the album with the consent of the Winehouse family. They worked together on listening back to thousands of hours of vocals by Winehouse. Remi commented on the project, "When I listened back you would hear some of the conversations in between—that was emotional. It has been hard, but it has also been an amazing thing. Amy was a gifted girl. I believe she has left something beyond her years. She has put a body of work together that will inspire an unborn generation. I'm blessed to be part of that process, to have known that person and to continue her legacy with this album." Remi told the NME that the album would not lead to "a Tupac situation", referring to Tupac Shakur, in whose name seven posthumous studio albums have been released since his death in 1996. He stated, "A lot of people, through the other antics that were going on with her personally, didn’t get that she was at the top of what she did. Coming to Miami was her escape from all of that, and her writing process could document her life, whether it was recording the pain or the loneliness or the humour. It makes no sense for these songs to be sitting on a hard drive, withering away."
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