From my From Croydon To Cuba review: Produced by then husband Steve Lillywhite, Titanic Days has it all: bright love song You Know It's You, tales of very bad men (to which MacColl seems drawn, at least in her lyrics) Titanic Days, Can't Stop Killing You, and Bad, and the sentimental melancholy of Soho Square. The airy, dreamy Angel and Tomorrow Never Comes are beautiful. Lillywhite's production and the backing of crack musicians help realize MacColl's most consistent songwriting, and her performances are both cool and riveting.
I also recently discovered that a new double vinyl best of set titled Free World was released in 2023. It is a thoughtful collection that doesn't bring any new surprises, but collects most of the essentials, and it's available on (yellow, not that it matters) vinyl. There are too many compilations of Kirsty's work, and some are not really hits collections, but this one is a good selection of songs, spans her career, and gets most of the important picks right. Of course if you are a big fan of Ms. MacColl's work, you probably have most of these songs, and if you're a casual fan, maybe you've got one of the decent single CD overviews. So I guess this is mostly for those of us that would want to hear these songs on vinyl rather than CD. Most of her work is available on original vinyl releases (and recent vinyl reissues) of the individual albums.
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