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Grace Jones: Hurricane

Luke Turner, The Quietus, 7 November 2008

IN THE YEARS SINCE Grace Jones' last foray into recorded music, female artistes have increasingly been forced into major label-defined sonic and aesthetic roles, be that the saccharine cooing of stool-bound R&B, the belt-it-out, HRT diva Power Of A Woman compilation fodder, or the creepy allure of the post-Disney pop starlet.

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