Joan Armatrading: Starlight

Joan Armatrading

Starlight

Hypertension

I almost feel it would be easier/better if the latest Joan Armatrading album was downright awful. Easier to dismiss anyway. But instead it is frustrating in showing glimpses of the old jazzy voicings that made that handful of great albums across the 1970s/early 1980s so exciting, intense and interesting.

But Joan take…