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Blank Project • Neneh Cherry

13 Mar 2014 / Comments Off / in Music/by

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Released February 25, 2014
There are on Neneh Cherry’s Blank Project some bold and invigorating pop song structures. The album feels like an authentic, concentrated version of Cherry.

“Neneh Cherry is back. Her art and soul inform this project, blank only for you to fill the role of listener and to share the very human experiences expressed honestly, courageously and often thrillingly throughout.”

Our LGBT Histories: Music – Day 17

17 Feb 2013 / Comments Off / in LGBT History Month/by

Neneh Cherry, ‘Manchild’.

To mark LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari asked its contributors to recall a song that had an impact their own stories.

“And then those sumptuous 50 piece Abbey Road strings sweep in and you were away, an amused, bemused and only slightly confused 19 year old homosexualist making his first knee trembling suburban journeys into London, off hand-in-hand down an alley with the big sister you never had.”