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Title: Chungking - The Hungry Years
Review: Even though THE HUNGRY YEARS is a revamped version of Chungking's debut album on Tummy Touch, it still retains all the charms of the original. Merging modern electronics with 70s psychedelic pop, THE HUNGRY YEARS has catchy tunes galore and plenty of spunk (thanks in no small part to Jessie Banks' versatile vocals). Banks can go from sultry ("Making Music") to high and bright ("Voodoo"), and, with the magic of time-stretching, she can even sound like a male R&B crooner ("Full On"). And even though the first three tracks have the upbeat thickness of rock songs, the slower tracks have no less soul. Banks channels Ella Fitzgerald for "Angel Eyes," and her voice supplies a gospel-like chorus to the romantic strings, and she brings out the heartbreak on "Following." But my favorite track, "We Love You," sounds like the theme song to a vampire bordello -- Anne Rice with her funk on. Makes me hungry for me!
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