(The cover of the other Cynthia Biggs CD
available at FER, entitled The Songs of
Cynthia Biggs)
CYNTHIA BIGGS
NO ONE LIKE YOU (UK First Experience, 2001)
1) Whole 2) Let Them Talk 3) Let's
Not Say Goodbye 4) Every Little Thing 5) No One
Like You 6) Can't Outlove This Love 7) Nothing
Ever Hurt This Good 8) Comfort of Your Touch 9)
You Shoulda Been There 10) You're the One 11) You
Ought to Know by Now 12) Work in Progress 13) No
More Heat to the Flame
Why is it...You wait for a Cynthia Biggs
to arrive and then two come along at once!! Well
I don't mind the wait when you get two absolute
killer albums in the space of two weeks. This
time the vocal chores are supplied by the fine
talents of Ms. Sharon Bryant formerly
of Atlantic Starr. The
proceedings get off to an absolute top notch
start with the cracking mid-tempo swayer Whole
which puts you in the right frame of mind from
the offset. But it just gets better with the next
track Let Them Talk, an atmospheric
slice of pure class with a 99 on the goosebump
scale! Can it get better? Yes it most definitely
can. Just flood your lug'oles with the gorgeous Let's Just Say Goodnight which will have
you lunging for the repeat button on your stereo
remote....Oooooh, pure bliss! MY GOD, can I take
any more?. No sign of a drop in the quality with
the excellent Every Little Thing another
quality ballad that will have the feel-good
factor moving to critical. The title track moves
the tempo up a notch with a mid-tempo groove to
die for..a future classic me thinks.
Another highlight is the grove ballad Nothing
Ever Hurt This Good which, again, has class
oozing from every note. Again, without using
every positive adjective on the planet up in one
revue, let me say that if this doesn't become a
classic of the future then we might as well give
up and turn the lights out!...The ONLY let down
to this superb album (and I'm real sorry to moan
to those fab people at First Experience records)
is the crashingly dreadful sleeve!!. How such a
wonderful release could be let loose on the CD
buying public with such an awful travesty of a
sleeve is beyond me. Albums of this calibre
deserve some respect! (OK Ranting over) 12 out of
10 for the album - 0 for the artwork.
The review by Barry Towler
exclusively for RECORD CORNER, which is
one of the leading soul shops in the world. The
review is not featured in our printed issue.
