The Best of Tanita Tikaram

Being 18 and having a recording debut that goes on to sell an amazing four million copies right around the world is all fine and dandy but does raise the inevitable question of just how do you follow that? Eight years and a futher four albums on, Basingstoke's Tanita Tikaram is still looking for the answer. Best Of, the inevitable result of the inevitable parting of the ways with East West, with its inevitable bias towards Ancient Heart, merely confirms suspicious that she ran out of ideas and tunes almost at once. In fact, once Good Tradition, World Outside Your Window and Twist In My Sobriety are out of the way the pickings prove to be painfully thin with only the mock Spectorama of You Make the Whole World Cry at least adding a dramatic sheen to her otherwise morose musing. Too much, too young and not much fun at all.**

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