Soul Kiss review
After a four-year hiatus from the recording studios, Olivia Newton-John (now the expecting Mrs. Matt Lattanzi) releases her newest album Soul Kiss. Typically Olivia, these ten cuts range in style with the artist’s unyielding vocal prowess as the common denominator.
Ms. N-J shows a graduation to more mature, even provocative material such as the first side’s “Culture Shock. Olivia still has the ‘little girl touch’ as she wraps her delicate and heartfelt sounds around the tender, sensitive lyrics of ballads such as Emotional Tangle.”
“You Were Great, How Was I?” the duet with Beach Boys member Carl Wilson (and backed by Christopher Cross) has all the markings of late sixties Beach Boys material when the group was trying to update its sound. Olivia and Carl do a fine turn for each other just the same.
All the gamuts are covered here from con temporary rock “Moth To A Flame” to a taste of reggae “Toughen Up” to the sensuality of “Overnight Observation” and the title cut.
ON-J has also become quite the entrepreneur and co-owner of LA’s latest boutique: Koala Blue, a trendy store dealing strictly in Australian exports soon to test the markets of Europe and Japan.