She Talks to Rainbows

She Talks to Rainbows

“The Ronettes were a girl group that always flirted with being too much, and their sound was frequently more aggressive and dangerous than many of their counterparts and contemporaries. It was all in the way that Ronnie Spector sang. Her voice was filled with carnal knowledge, a playful adolescence, and an exquisite tension between being tough and tender. Flash forward from 1964 to 1999, she’s lost the backup singers, the Wall of Sound, but she’s picked up punk cred, rock iconography, and sounds right at home with an alternative rock edge to the pop sound.   Her voice always had a switchblade edge, and co-producers Joey Ramone (a long-time devote to the Ronettes) and Daniel Rey give her plenty of noise to surround that iconic vibrato. It comes out swinging strong with the title track” read more