 
Over the past couple of years Caro Emerald has
come from being unheard of to being one of the
most talked about female solo acts in the world
and there are so many reasons for this first of
all Caro Emerald hails from Holland and she has
a sound, look and feel which takes us right back
to the 50’s which is an era which I am sure
the majority of the younger generation would love
to visit at the click of a finger if they could.
Caro Emerald released her debut album ‘Deleted
Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’ back
in 2010 where it spent over 30 weeks at the number
one spot in her home country of Holland, in the
UK the same success wasn’t met but the album
reached the top ten and put Caro Emerald on the
map in the UK and since then she has been going
from strength to strength in the UK with her music
being blasted from radio stations, tv channels
and even shop radio stations.
Back on the 5th May Caro Emerald released hero
second studio album ‘The Shocking Miss Emerald’
the album went straight to number one of the UK
album charts and a 14 date UK tour for September
also sold out within hours proving that Caro Emerald
really is on track to becoming an household name
over the world.
The album opens with a short retro sounding intro
sounding like something from an old classic black
and white movie and then goes straight into the
upbeat ‘One Day’, the song is perfectly
produced and talks about the life of Miss Emerald
in such a positive way and finishes with beats
sounding like retro computer game sounds.
The first single taken from the album is the Guy
Chambers produced ‘Tangled Up’ and
it is so easy to see why it was picked as the
lead single as from straight to finish the song
is a big happy sing-a-long number which is also
going to get people shaking their bodies on the
dance floor.
At the moment the fantastic ‘Liquid Lunch’
is gracing the airwaves as it is the latest single
to be taken from the album and it is a song which
pretty much everyone can relate to as let’s
face it we have all had a liquid lunch at least
once in our lives, musically the song is a big
catchy number and as soon as you hear that fast
paced chorus for the first time it will be left
going around your head for days to come.
The likes of ‘Completely’, ‘Pack
Up The Louie’ , ‘Excuse My French’,
‘Paris’, ‘My 2 Cents’
are all a pleasure to listen to and bound to be
considered for release as a future single but
saying that pretty much every track on the album
has the potential to be a future single as Caro
Emerald has managed to maintain her stands on
‘The Shocking Miss Emerald’ by creating
an album which is enjoyable from start to finish
with no duff moments in place.
It is safe to say that ‘The Shocking Miss
Emerald’ is one of those albums that you
could listen to in say 50 years time and it would
still sound as good and relevant then as it does
now because from the start Caro Emerald has gone
down the Imelda May route with her retro look
and the big retro sound that is so infectious
nothing could possibly make these songs grow tired
or age.
5/5
Review by Trigger
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