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Gorillaz grow old, Adam Lambert channels Billie Eilish – the week’s best albums
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lUT0rVHbUAdam Lambert: High Drama ★★★★☆With his big hair and bigger eyeliner, the theatrical spectacle of Adam Lambert’s presence is “larger than life”, as Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out for a Hero puts it. That song is the opener on Indiana-born, California-raised Lambert’s new cover album, which casts stardust across re-imagined versions of country ballads, ’80s New Romantic cuts, ’90s indie rock, and more recent pop hits. At 41, Getting Older (Billie Eilish) is delivered with a wink and a nod to an industry that wants unwrinkled flesh on its magazine and album covers. The ghostly ballad Ordinary World (Duran Duran) lays weeping violins over a sorrowful, echoing piano melody, as Lambert delivers restrained assurance in the line, “I won’t cry for yesterday… I will learn to survive”. His echoing harmonies spiral upwards into heavenly falsetto atop wailing hair-metal guitar – pure Freddie Mercury. If anyone can nail it, it’s Lambert, who has toured alongside Queen as lead vocalist since 2011. Lambert is also attuned to cover songs, having served, since 2009, both as a reality TV contestant and judge in America and Britain, so it’s unsurprising that he transforms fellow songwriters’ lyrics and music into button-bursting pop worthy of a stadium. Did we need a funky bassline and a staccato-style, breathy vocal on Kings of Leon’s Sex on Fire? Arguably not, but the folky, brassy guitar of Pink's My Attic is a genuine tearjerker, revelling in melancholy memories, and the sultry crooner I’m A Man (Jobriath) channels Fast Love-era George Michael in all the right ways. In Lambert’s versatile delivery, his influences bubble up like champagne: Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Mercury (of course). Come for the drama, but stay and swoon for Lambert’s intoxicating, heartfelt closer: Dinah Washington’s Mad About the Boy. Cat Woods |
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