Rockferry
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100
Brilliantly ... on Rockferry you can't hear the joins. The closing track, 'Distant Dreamer', is an epic, orchestral stab of longing. A young Welsh woman channelling the Walker Brothers? Now that's clever.
8y
91
Once the Dusty Springfield-flecked closer, ”Distant Dreamer,” comes round, you’ll be wishin’ and hopin’ for more.
10y
83
That ice-queen intrigue adds a certain cachet to the 23-year-old's occasionally overstudied lyrics.
14y
80
For a debut album it's remarkably consistent and confident, and promises great things to come for the future.
15y
80
The emotional heft of her soaring, aching voice is irresistible. However she got here, she's the real thing.
2y
80
It all adds up to an impressive first step that ticks plenty of the right boxes, as does Duffy herself.
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3y
80
Rather than crooning about being committed, she sounds like she's being released.
10y
80
This particular precocious British soul starlet turns out to be worth the hype.
12y
80
The shadows come richly dark, and the brilliance pierces.
14y
80
Butler's production makes her solid voice and intriguing songwriting into an excellent album; although he stays in the background, the occasional guitar flourishes or sweetened strings make Rockferry a better debut than Joss Stone's or Amy Winehouse's.
15y
78
I wonder how she’ll go with the Welsh National Anthem? She’ll have 60,000 to help out with the backing vocals if she gets stuck. One more reason to wish I’m there.
10y
70
Duffy’s nuanced vocal itself falls just a shade short of the Olympian standard that’s required to make stuff like this fly, and for all its polish, ‘Rockferry’ is still what you’d get if you put Amy Winehouse in My Fair Lady; refined, mannered, but just a teensy bit dull.
12y
68
Although flawed, Rockferry holds a startling amount of promise.
11y
60
Unfortunately, its during these rather naked moments where the album falters, mostly because Duffy’s robust voice often overmatches the music that surrounds it.
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2y
60
Rockferry is a pretty nifty party trick of a record, but it's not enough to justify Duffy's Next Big Thing billing.
11y
60
There's nothing dislikable about Rockferry - but nothing that dazzles, either.
10y
60
Rockferry is almost a very good album, but, for all the classic soul hallmarks, there’s little insight into the actual soul of Duffy herself.
10y
60
Sometimes Duffy tries just that little too hard to capture the sound of soul music's glorious past.
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3y
60
At this point ... the movement of white UK female artists using 60s nostalgia to reinvent pop music is not all that original, but at least it’s a welcome break from the previous trends.
7y
60
Again, an attempt at modern classic or classic with modern twist? I suspect this is what they were going for, but after three years in the making and a bunch of extremely well-written, well-polished songs, I'm still not sure this record is the real Duffy.
5y
60
Certainly Rockferry doesn’t do anything new, but it doesn’t do anything that’s been done in a while either, and for Duffy, that should be enough for Duffy to carve out her name amongst the stagnant realms of current mainstream pop.
15y
40
Duffy’s debut is hoovered of personality, principally, because on this evidence, she hasn’t got any.
14y
Alguns não vão conhecê-la de cara, mas com certeza irão reconhecer quando ouvir o seu hit "Mercy" com sua voz única e cheia de identidade, e não foi apenas em Mercy que ela mostra isso, e sim em todas as faixas desse disco.
Em seu disco de estreia, Duffy mostra muito talento, tanto para cantar, quanto para escrever, suas composições são boas, a produção do álbum é um pouco sofisticada, nem parece ... read more
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I don't even know why I'm listening to this, but it's great. Mercy is a fucking banger tho.
welsh queen, thank you for this pop-soul masterpiece. 'mercy', 'serious' and 'warwick avenue' are some of my favourite songs ever, especially mercy because it's forever associated to my early teen years - i remember the video would get played constantly in the music channels. there's such a sad and beautiful longing in this record that i resonate with, her voice is incredible. the soundscape in this is timeless.
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Track List
| 1 | Rockferry 4:12 | 83 |
| 2 | Warwick Avenue 3:46 | 93 |
| 3 | Serious 4:10 | 86 |
| 4 | Stepping Stone 3:29 | 84 |
| 5 | Syrup & Honey 3:17 | 78 |
| 6 | Hanging On Too Long 3:56 | 84 |
| 7 | Mercy 3:39 | 92 |
| 8 | Delayed Devotion 2:57 | 83 |
| 9 | I'm Scared 3:09 | 80 |
| 10 | Distant Dreamer 5:05 | 91 |
Total Length: 37 minutes
