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| Artist: Duffy
Label: Mercury
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $7.92
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Avg. Customer Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 65
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 001082202
UPC: 602517629769
EAN: 0602517629769
ASIN: B0014I4KIK
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Blue eyed soul from the UK May 13, 2008
10 out of 23 found this review helpful
Duffy is the latest Blue eyed soul singer from the UK, following in the wake of Amy Winehouse. With her kohled eyes and bouffant blonde hairdo, images of Dusty Springfield come to mind, and indeed, it doesn't stop at just her image. She has got the voice to match; light, yet soulful.
Lead-off single (and UK #1 hit) "Mercy" is a bouncy retro sounding Motownish organ inflected song that Ms Springfield could have done.
The rest of the album is filled with lush, catchy ballads all touching on different aspects of love/relationships; "Serious" (sweeping strings and lovely harmonies), the sparse cinematic "Stepping stone" (my favourite), the Blues-tinged acoustic "Syrup and honey", the sweeping, soulful "Hanging on too long", "Scared", the brilliant Phil Spector-ish "Distant dreamer" (which just seems to keep building up - another favourite of mine), "Rockferry", and "Warwick avenue".
Great things were already touted of her (much like Adele) last year before she's even released her album and she's already living up to the hype. Her album hit #1 in the UK seems to have set up house in the top 10. Here's hoping she can cross over the pond and crack the US also.
Gotta Love Her May 13, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Duffy debut album is without a doubt one of the best album released in a couple of years, hopeful we will see her winning big at the Grammy's next year, she's really deserving.
my favorites
1 - Warwick Avenue
2 - Hanging On Too Long
3 - Mercy
 Uhh, what? May 23, 2008
10 out of 25 found this review helpful
Such commercial hype: DO NOT BELIEVE IT Amazonians! This voice is fair, at best, and the tracks here are as cliche as a Thanksgiving turkey. This is a horrible attempt to commercialize horrible music. The voice is fair, thus 2 stars. That's a gift.
Excellent Debut! May 13, 2008
8 out of 21 found this review helpful
With Phil Spector's wall of sound and the vocal whisper of Dusty Springfield (not to mention her image) Duffy makes a record that's the polar opposite of Amy Winehouse's brilliant Black to Back -- but with the same stunning results.
Duffy's album is more quiet. The strings and piano on most songs are just as important as Winehouse's growl on her record. Listen to the brilliant break up track "Warwick Avenue" and you'll swear that it's a lost LuLu track; it swells at just the right places as Duffy's voice crumbles like a Ritz cracker. And the dark "Rockferry" sounds like some alternate universe of a Petula Clark track. Like Winehouse, she's not just mining a sound, there does seem to be a genuine adoration for the sound she's going for.
If there is one complaint -- this record is short! It goes by fast. But like most great discs, you get a complete story here. It verges very close to a concept album. You walk away with an understanding of Duffy as an artist and that's very hard to get from one album. Her lilting sparrow like voice is seamless to the excellent production and this album is well worth the purchase.
No Filler... how rare is that? May 17, 2008
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I think a lot of the negative reviews must reflect people's displeasure with the obviously massive marketing effort being carried out on Duffy's behalf. Either that, those reviewers just don't like soulful pop music. In addition, they seem to be making a concerted effort to cast negative votes on any positive review.
All I can say is, I enjoyed Rockferry the whole way through, which is always a shock when I'm more used to being sucked in by hype, paying full price for a recording, and then only liking a couple of songs. On Rockferry, there were only one or two songs that I didn't love at first listen, but even then, they had excellent choruses that captured my attention, and I came around to appreciating the songs just a few listens later.
To those who say Duffy doesn't seem like she really FEELS the soul, I would say that sincerity of that sort is difficult to quantify, and whether a particular singer has it or not is debatable. There's also the youth angle... some seem to think that no one who is as young as Duffy can convincingly sing soul music. There is an argument to be made there, as well as an argument against. No doubt, the older a singer gets, the more life experience he or she has to put into the work, but I think life is sufficiently difficult and complicated that young people DO know what it's like to go through difficult experiences. Nor do I think you have to have grown up in a trailer or to have been abused by your parents from the age of two to experience depression, sadness, existential angst and the like. So give Duffy a break. She is the age she is.
Don't hate her because you hate her marketing campaign!
If you at all like soulful music, go out and buy this. Well, let me revise that... listen to a couple of the 30 second samples and make sure that this is your type of music, and if you like what you hear, believe me, the rest of the album won't let you down. It's sinfully cheap right now on Amazon, but it would easily be worth it at full price.
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