Natalie Prass came very good indeed with her second album The Future & the Past. Something of an elfin Janet Jackson, her record was clipped and sweet and Jam and Lewis would have been proud to helm it. Graced with possibly the oddest album cover of the year with Prass as pale as alabaster and sporting a jarring, clashing jacket, shirt and bow tie, the album by contrast was tastefully smooth as silk.
I preferred this to the Christine & the Queens record which gets much more support in the big end of year polls. The two records try to pull off similar conceits, both deeply grounded in Eighties surfaces, production values and attitude. The Future & the Past gets my nod between the two as Retro-Soul Album of the Year.
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