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Amy Winehouse - Rehab single / Back To Black album

Ivor Novello award winner, Mercury Music Prize and triple Brit nominee Amy Winehouse, has her hugely anticipated new single Rehab released on October 23rd through Universal Records. Amy, whose universally acclaimed platinum debut "Frank" established her as one of the most exciting and challenging artists in pop music, confirms on "Rehab", and on the forthcoming new album "Back To Black" (October 30th), what a truly remarkable talent she is.

Amy's refined new songwriting approach and fearlessness as a lyric writer has been grafted onto some of the most astonishing material of her short career so far. "Back To Black" sees her teaming up once again with "Frank" producer Salaam Remi and, for the first time, with New Yorker Mark Ronson (Lily Allen, Robbie Williams and Christina Aguilera).

Two years ago, following the success of "Frank", Amy began thinking about what she'd like to do with her second record. "Frank" was her grand and suitably blunt-speaking break-up record, and it won her a battalion of fans around the world, marking her out as one of the most distinct new voices in pop; confessional, elemental and with that rarest of combinations: humour and soul.

"I didn't want to play the jazz thing up too much again. I was bored of complicated chord structures and needed something more direct. I'd been listening to a lot of girl-groups from the fifties and sixties. I liked the simplicity of that stuff. It just gets to the point." You can hear it on the subtley Supremes-referencing intro of "Back To Black". But her reach stretches further. While the girl-groups of the sixties to which she had become enthralled contained their vocals, Amy can break loose with Aretha-style vocal stylings on "Just Friends" or by turning the whole idea of drying out into a gospel spiritual on the stunning opener "Rehab". "Love is a Losing Game" is pure classic modern songwriting: brief, to the point and drenched in emotion.

Other highlights include the Nas inspired "Me and Mr Jones", the beautiful "Wake Up Alone", "I'm No Good", the personal epiphany that you can behave just as badly as all those guys that have messed you around and stamped all over you, and the bluesy smooch of the title track, "Back To Black".

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Related links:

1. BUY Amy Winehouse Back To Black Album
2. Amy Winehouse - Pumps / Help Yourself
3. Amy Winehouse Biography