Album Of The Week: Neneh Cherry & The Thing The Cherry Thing

If you've spent any time over the last few months reading this website, you know that today is Fiona Apple Day, the day that Apple's long-awaited and crazy-good new album The Idler Wheel... finally sees release. That album is obviously the week's best album, and quite possibly the year's as well. But I wrote a long thing about that album a week ago, and I don't have a lot left to say about it, at least not yet. So instead, let's take this chance to look at another long-absent, fearless veteran who's come back to us by turning bits of freaked-out space-jazz into pushing-for-the-stars pop music. The Cherry Thing, on which Neneh Cherry teams up Scandinavian free jazz crew the Thing to cover some very, very good songs isn't the momentous release that The Idler Wheel... is, but it's a powerful piece of work regardless.