Raindancing by Alison Moyet

Raindancing, Alison Moyet's second solo album, came out on CBS on 6 April 1987, and it's the sound of the former Yazoo singer reaching for the big time with both hands. Jimmy Iovine produced most of it, and he wraps that bluesy contralto in glossy, expensive pop, with session players like T. M. Stevens and Omar Hakim on the books and even a guest turn from Herb Alpert.

It nearly went out as Chasing Rain, a title pulled from a line in "Sleep Like Breathing". Instead it rode four singles, "Is This Love?", "Weak in the Presence of Beauty", "Ordinary Girl" and "Sleep Like Breathing", all the way to number two in Britain. Americans got it on Columbia with a different sleeve and the songs shuffled into a new order, and BMG gave it a deluxe reissue in 2016.

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