Andrea Superstein delves into a sea of cheese on What Goes On

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      Andrea Superstein
      What Goes On (Cellar Live)

      I don’t like her music. I think it’s music for fucking grannies. Music has nose-dived into fucking blandness—a sea of cheese.

      Hey, hey, hey! Hold on a minute…

      That was weird: I just found myself channelling potty-mouthed apeman Noel Gallagher, and he was dissing Adele, whereas I’m talking about local singer Andrea Superstein.

      But “sea of cheese” seems apt. How, for instance, can you criticize an album for sounding like Muzak when the plucked strings that introduce “After You’ve Gone” aspire to exactly that? Then there’s the dire fact that the title track is not a witty reinvention of the Velvet Underground tune, but a Superstein original that sounds like a distant echo of something Cole Porter might have written in a champagne haze and then binned.

      And what are we to make of opening number “I Want to be Evil”? It was fun when Eartha Kitt sang it, but that was in 1953 and she was believable.

      If, on the other hand, Jill Barber is your favourite jazz singer, this might interest you—especially given that Superstein has poached the CBC favourite’s producer, bandleader, and guitarist, Les Cooper. He’s a fine musician, but when the person with the microphone falls flat, that’s just not enough.

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