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Anita Baker: The Deep Dark Soul

Richard Cook, The Wire, September 1986

THE BAND PLAYS a slow, rough-textured groove, flesh laid on the dark bones of the bass. Three women set up a vocal counterpoint, rich with vibrato, but the singer's work is to beat a space out of her surroundings.

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