after coming in from the cold with The Cherry Thing, a 2012 collaboration with Swedish free jazz band The Thing (who take their name from a song by her stepfather, trumpeter Don Cherry).
Blank Project was produced by electronic beatmaker Kieran Hebden, also known as Four Tet, and it's an understated affair that flows with easy confidence and a mellower take on the art-pop/hip-hop inclinations that Cherry burst upon the scene with on her ahead- of-its-time 1988 hit Buffalo Stance. Out of the Black, a duet with her fellow Swedish pop star Robyn, is not quite the epic meeting of voices one might have hoped for, but Blank Project is mostly a deeply personal, subtly enticing, long overdue return to form.
* Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound) is out now.
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