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Frank [CD]

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Amy Winehouse's debut, Frank, arrives here on CD: the brash, jazz-soaked first statement from a voice that would soon be impossible to ignore.

First released in 2003, when Winehouse was barely twenty and writing about late nights in North London, Frank arrived years before Back to Black made her a household name. Working largely with producer Salaam Remi, she blended jazz standards, hip-hop rhythms and neo-soul into something unmistakably her own. The songs are funny, cutting and full of attitude, delivered with phrasing that owes as much to Sarah Vaughan as it does to nineties R&B.

"Stronger Than Me" opens with a lazy, swinging groove and lyrics that are anything but polite, while "Take the Box" turns a breakup into a sharp-eyed inventory of hurt. "In My Bed" pairs a hip-hop beat with brutally honest lines, and her take on "(There Is) No Greater Love" shows just how comfortable she was inside the Great American Songbook.

There is a looseness here that her later records polished away, and many fans treasure it for exactly that reason. You can hear a young artist testing her limits and finding very few.

For anyone who loves Back to Black, Frank is the essential prequel: the sound of an extraordinary talent finding her feet and refusing to play nice.

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