Say She She – Cut and Rewind
Cut and Rewind; Under The Sun; Disco Life; Chapters: Possibilities; Take It All; She Who Dares; Shop Boy; Bandit; Little Kisses; Do All Things With Love; Make It Known
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Recorded between touring commitments, the third album from Say She She sees the three-piece developing their sound with influences coming from acts as diverse as Nile Rodgers and Tom Tom Club. The title track which opens the album showcases their new, more direct sound, though their three-part harmonies, which have become their trademark, are still present, as is their backing band Orgone, with the funky bass lines from Dale Jennings underpinning the twelve tracks.

Disco Life – as the title suggests – is a disco-infused number that has a lyric that deals with the 1979 Disco Demolition Night in America, where records by black and gay artists were burnt, which led to the downfall of the disco movement, though on this track the trio are still on fire.

Elsewhere, Shop Boy and She Who Dares take the group out of their comfort zone, though the production remains nostalgic, the latter dealing with the challenges faced by women who question the social norms and go against them. There is nothing on the album, though, that reaches the commercialism of their biggest single, C’est Si Bon, or their cover of The Jackson Sisters’ I Believe in Miracles, which in part might hamper their success of crossing over to a wider audience.

If you are looking for an album that has a nod to the future and a step in the past that brings disco and funk together, you will not be disappointed with this new recording.