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Nona Hendryx: The Heat (RCA)

Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 7 November 1985

NONA HENDRYX emerged from post-LaBelle limbo as a member of Talking Heads' big Remain in Light band. On The Heat, her fourth solo album, she continues to combine the gospel sound she absorbed growing up near Philadelphia with the hard-funk blasting of a new generation of New Yorkers.

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