#211
1980 Housekeeping
Hazel O’Connor
Sons and Lovers
Genre: New Wave
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
D-Days
Who Will Care?
Requisite 80s Cover: “Danny Boy”. Sure. Why not? In this bizarro hodgepodge, this is a perfect addition.
We didn’t review Hazel’s debate because it’s a soundtrack but, listening to this, maybe we should have. I have no frame of reference for an artist who put out two records in 1980, one of which was produced by Tony Visconti. This one isn’t that. Instead it has Andy Qunta on keyboards (I sold him an air conditioner and he married an acquaintance of mine!!) and Gary Tibbs of Adam and the Ants, played bass. And it’s produced by Nigel Gray of The Police, Siouxie and Godley and Creme among many others. And he was a medical doctor!
Come on!
This a weirdly rewarding album that I would happily play alongside Romeo Void. It’s disjointed as hell and suffers from too much devotion to theater but I think that’s what I like about it.
Hazel has been acting and recording for 4 decades.
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