Alison Moyet - Alf

A little love injection?

"Love Resurrection" has one of the finest instrumentations ever recorded. Blatting off with Moyet's voice, the synth-trumpet sails you into heaven. Swing your hips and understand that love comes in the form of a CD. This collection is great pop. As I've stated, "Love Resurrection" is the top track here. Followed by "Honey For The Bees" and "Twisting The Knife". Total fun with substance. Think Yaz(oo), with a Swain/Jolley injection. May 23, 2008

Alf at 20, still unique

I've always been a fan of Alison Moyet, how could you not love a voice like that? Yet the 80's Europop sound hasn't aged well, all those keyboards and synthesised drums sound a little tinny today. Alf has more than it's share of those but it also has something that never goes out of style, a tough yet sensuous voice with the power to shake the room and the sensitivity reach out and grab you, sometimes in the same song. Arrangements aside, Alf still has some very strong material. Love Resurrection, All Cried Out and Where Lies Sleep are great tunes but the hit Invisble sums this album up perfectly. The dated arrangement and layers upon layers of keyboards would suffocate a lesser singer but Alison rises above it and delivers some of her most memorable work. Alf literally cries out for an update yet that voice still delivers. While I prefer Yaz's edgy industrial dancepop or later Moyet collections like Hoodoo and Hometime where the arrangements better complement the singer, I still can't resist this album. And that's a trbute to Alison Moyet's remarkable voice. November 18, 2006

Moyet shines, a trifle.

"Love Resurrection" has one of the finest instrumentations ever recorded. Blatting off with Moyet's voice, the synth-trumpet sails you into heaven. Swing your hips and understand that love comes in the form of a CD. This collection is great pop. As I've stated, "Love Resurrection" is the top track here. Followed by "Honey For The Bees" and "Twisting The Knife". Total fun with substance. Think Yaz(oo), with a Swain/Jolley injection. November 21, 2005

An Amazing 80's Pop Icon

Alison Moyet really hits paydirt here as there are "Hits" written all over this album.

"Love resurrection" is a highly charged song to start the ball rolling.
"Honey for the bees" continues the upbeat tempo and your feet will not stop tapping anymore.
"For you only" slows it down a beat for you to catch your breath.
"Invisible" is such a great 80's song, I have so many memories from this song.
You are by now "All cried out".
But "Money mile" takes you out on the road again.
Just when you thought it was safe to stop tapping your feet, Alison wings it again by "Twisting the knife".
Finally, "Where hides sleep" is so sweet and vengeful you begin to ask for more.

You will never get tired of this album. Yes, this album has so many good songs you will sing them over and over. I have - since the 80's! July 18, 2005

A Warm Injection of Pure British Soul!

Alison's fist solo offering after her departure from Yazoo began a career away from cold synths and dance repitition.

She showed us how warm she really was with the almost revival feel of "Love Resurection" and the sweet "For You Only".

She showed off her powerful soul notes on epics like "All Cried Out" and "Invisible". Got a little bluesy over "Steal Me Blind" and atmospheric on the ethereal "Where Hides Sleep".

Alison is an important artist and in the mid 80s during the promised and disapointing jazz revivals, ALF brought a breath of freshness and vim! She shames Julia Fordham, blows away Tracy Thorn, and rivaled Sade who at the time wore a white backless Billy Holiday ... dress to connect in people's minds that she was trying to be jazz...thankfully this only lasted one album and she became a star on PROMISE...but enough about her.

ALF is a standard now in the Moyet collection and she has just added another gem, her new album: HOMETIME which is almost scarily her best album ever!!

Buy both and love them...thank you. September 26, 2002

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