Today Alison Moyet releases Voice, an album of 'classic songs' (not covers, mind.) It's stunningly beautiful, simple, tasteful. Arranged and produced by Anne Dudley, Academy Award winning composer, it's an eclectic affair - Purcell, Brel, Elvis Costello, and Michel Legrand. The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies-O!, which every schoolkid in England apparently knows and Elvis Costello's Almost Blue are both sublime. And she sings in French - Je crois encore entendre and Brel's La chanson des vieux amants.
She says in interviews that it's not a 'covers' album as she learned all of the songs from the original sheet music and her singing is sweet and unadorned. I hope she tours with it.
