Hear Her Voice: Vinyl 2LP Various Artists

Across 21 tracks, this newly-compiled collection shines a spotlight on the most influential female artists from 1968 to the present day. Every track is taken from records highlighted as part of this year’s National Album Day with its theme of celebrating women in music.

With the selection of each song carefully considered, Hear Her Voice features innovators, pioneers and interpreters, artists who pushed against the glass ceiling and blazed their own trail – from performers like Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield and Marianne Faithfull who battled against stereotype to singular vocalists and writers such as Siouxsie Sioux and Kirsty MacColl to today’s accomplished stars the calibre of Emeli Sandé and Florence Welch.

Hear Her Voice includes the soulful magic of six-time Grammy® winner Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’, Robyn’s iconic ‘Dancing On My Own’, Corinne Bailey Rae’s joyous celebration of music and empowerment, ‘Put Your Records On’ and ‘Don’t Call Me Up’ by 2019 Brit Award Female Vocalist winning vocalist Mabel.

Although Hear Her Voice features many different styles and genres, its unity comes from the power of delivery throughout – whether it be trip-hop pioneers Portishead (with Beth Gibbons), the jazz influences of Celeste (Recently Mercury-nominated and the first UK female artist to have a No. 1 album in five years), the post-punk energy vigour of The Slits, the street smarts of Neneh Cherry or the effervescent dance-pop of Ellie Goulding.

Hear Her Voice was compiled by Lisa Power, one of the world’s leading A&R Consultants and founder of reissuesbywomen. “The breadth of female talent in the Universal UK catalogue is immense,” says Power. “And it is not overstating it to say that we were blown away by the overwhelmingly positive responses to be part of this collection, which showcases songs from some of the most critically acclaimed and enduringly successful albums by iconic women across six decades of music history.”

Tracks:

A1    Amy Winehouse–    Back To Black
A2    Florence And The Machine–    Dog Days Are Over
A3    Emeli Sandé–    Next To Me
A4    Dusty Springfield–    Son Of A Preacher Man
A5    Jessie Ware–    Say You Love Me
B1    Gabrielle–    Out Of Reach
B2    Corinne Bailey Rae–    Put Your Records On
B3    Ms. Dynamite–    Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
B4    Imelda May–    How Bad Can A Good Girl Be
B5    Kirsty MacColl–    In These Shoes?
B6    Neneh Cherry–    Buffalo Stance
C1    Ellie Goulding–    Love Me Like You Do
C2    Mabel (5)–    Don’t Call Me Up
C3    Sigrid (9)–    Sucker Punch
C4    Robyn–    Dancing On My Own
C5    Celeste (8)–    Stop This Flame
D1    Portishead–    Glory Box
D2    Siouxsie & The Banshees–    Spellbound
D3    The Slits–    Typical Girls
D4    Marianne Faithfull–    Broken English
D5    Sandie Shaw–    Reviewing The Situation