Mercy, by Duffy (CD single on Polydor)

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Format:	CD single
Label:	Polydor
Price:	£2.99
Catalogue number:	176 179-4
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The most hotly anticipated album release of this New Year comes not from someone rammed into the collective consciousness by their media ubiquity. Duffy is an unknown quantity at this point, having performed but a small number of gigs, mostly in support of The Magic Numbers, and having only just begun to be seen on TV, most notably with recent appearances on Jools Holland’s Later and New Year Hootenanny.

Yet her soulful voice has already beguiled many of the nation’s musical
tastemakers and news of its beauty and of the strength of her songs is
spreading by word of mouth even as you read these words. Radio One’s Jo
Whiley chose Duffy’s title track and album taster ‘Rockferry’ as her Single of the Week in late November, further adding to the momentum. Now, as the comparisons fly (Dusty Springfield has emerged as the favourite), it’s time to discover her for yourself. Duffy was born and spent her childhood years in the north Wales coastal community of Nefyn, a place too remote to be driven by style wars or opposing music factions (the nearest record counter was a bus ride away and only stocked the Top 40). The upbringing she describes is one in which everyone had to rub along together, making do and mending, accepting each other and their tastes without prejudice.

Says former Suede guitarist and record producer Bernard Butler of this artlessness, “Duffy managed to grow up without any concept of what was cool or current, what she should or shouldn’t like, how to behave or even how to sing. For her, coming to London at all was the stuff of fairytales.”