Albums
At The BBC
2021
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2021
By Douglas Wolk
Reviewed December 11, 2012
This CD/DVD gathers 48 minutes' worth of tracks from on-stage and in-the-studio broadcasts, including two otherwise unreleased titles, and an hour-long documentary built around a 22-minute set filmed shortly after the release of Back to Black.
Everybody wants a new Amy Winehouse album as good as . It would be nice if, for instance, it turned out that the British soul revivalist had completed or at least sketched out another jewel of a record during the turbulent last four years of her life. But she didn't: there was her collaboration with Mark Ronson on "Valerie", and the new song-and-a-half that turned up on last year's Lioness: Hidden Treasures, which was otherwise stocked with alternate versions, earlier outtakes, and covers. A live album that lived up to what she could do at her best would be welcome, too. But her post- gigs were relatively few and, by all accounts, mostly pretty dodgy.