TAPE Me Back To The Future — MADE For Tape # 12: Neneh Cherry, “Raw Like Sushi” (1989)

An occasional series here that celebrates the cassette-tape format in all its glory. Wobbles and all…

Neneh Cherry, Raw Like Sushi (1989)

In the early 1990s, the first couple of Neneh Cherry albums were everywhere. And they weren’t quite rap, and they weren’t quite soul, and they weren’t pop albums. What were they? They were brilliant. Darker R’n’B ballads than what you might hear on the pop side of that genre. And hip-hop elements certainly. But they f…