Phil Mongredien 

Lulu: Making Life Rhyme review – a solidly enjoyable collection

Lulu plays to her strengths in a wide-ranging album of mostly self-penned numbers
  
  

Lulu Performs At Under The Bridge In London
Powerhouse… Lulu, pictured onstage in London, 2013. Photograph: Gus Stewart/Redferns via Getty Images Photograph: Gus Stewart/Redferns via Getty Images

Fifty years into a career should be long enough to identify one’s strengths, and Lulu’s first album of new material in a decade – her first back on Decca, with whom she first came to prominence – certainly plays to them. The 11 mainly self-penned songs here showcase her still powerful voice, spread across a surprisingly wide range of genres. Heaven Help is beamed in from the 1950s; Every Single Day sounds like an upbeat Sheryl Crow; the irresistible Hypnotised takes the bassline from the Knack’s My Sharona on to the dancefloor. There’s little in the way of surprises but this is a solidly enjoyable collection.

 

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