Duffy

This is a brilliant debut album. Dropping the name Tin Tin (due to the threat of a law suit from the publishers of the Tin Tin comics), Stephen Duffy emerged with this stunning album. It's chock-full of strong pop melodies, love-found-and-lost lyrics, and Duffy's sweet vocals. The album was assembled over a period of time using a variety of co-producers (Stephen Street and Art of Noise's J.J. Jeczalik), but it all comes together, as the subtitle states, as "A Very Beautiful Collection." The hit "Kiss Me" is re-recorded here and actually sounds better than the original single version – noisier, but more interesting…

Here's a reissue of Duffy's sophomore album "Scruffy Duffy", originally dating from 1973. Duffy's style was a rather personal blend of psychedelia, prog and hard rock, revealing influences from Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and the more pastoral side of Jethro Tull. The sound of their debut album varies from rock-n- basic roll to a gradual solid heavier sound. There are lots of loud, gritty blues rock based assaults. "Heavy Rock Progressive (and sometimes Acoustic) sounds of Duffy are featured on this very desirable album, and the group have become quite a firm favourite amongst rock and blues audiences.