In the Remains (Explicit)
contact info: Cathy Jean (staff), PO Box 7371, Baltimore, MD, 21227, USA (410) 242-7742, cathyjean@cathyjean.com
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"This one hit me like a rock. Cathy Jean is far from unknown to my ears so you would think that her confessional and confrontational rock chic – and I mean that in the nicest possible way – persona would have no more than a muted effect on me by now. However, and I should have suspected something given the striking cover art, she really let rip this time with “In the Remains” being not so much an album as the sonic equivalent of a hand grenade.
... very focused and consistent. It is a rock album, of course, but Lita Ford wouldn’t go anywhere near as far as Cathy Jean has here. The impact isn’t the guitars or the drums. It is in her voice. Her words drip alternately with acid, love, pain, indifference and contempt in the way of a proper soul singer. She’s telling it like it is and even a guy can get that thi...
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"This one hit me like a rock. Cathy Jean is far from unknown to my ears so you would think that her confessional and confrontational rock chic – and I mean that in the nicest possible way – persona would have no more than a muted effect on me by now. However, and I should have suspected something given the striking cover art, she really let rip this time with “In the Remains” being not so much an album as the sonic equivalent of a hand grenade.
... very focused and consistent. It is a rock album, of course, but Lita Ford wouldn’t go anywhere near as far as Cathy Jean has here. The impact isn’t the guitars or the drums. It is in her voice. Her words drip alternately with acid, love, pain, indifference and contempt in the way of a proper soul singer. She’s telling it like it is and even a guy can get that thi...
