Opening with a slowburning, mulittracked celestial chorus of voices, 'Ms Grace' is presented as something gift wrapped with a bow, as if something incredibly special is about to go off. Unfortunately, once out of the wrapping the song lets itself down by falling into a spiral of predictability that never resolves into anything memorable. Apart from the repeated hook on the chorus, 'Ms Grace' lacks any kind of backbone to drape itself over, and with nothing supporting the repetition makes the whole thing fall over flat before it gets to the end.
It's a pleasant enough listen should it come on the radio, but there's precious little to make you want to actively seek it out. Not swinging enough for disco and not....well, soulful...enough for soul, 'Ms Grace' occupies an awkward no-mans land that fails to satisfy anybody totally (or as I've said before, it's a song to like rather than love). The Tymes had done better than this, but since they'd been a recording outfit since the fifties then maybe they deserved a number one prize for good attendance.
It's a pleasant enough listen should it come on the radio, but there's precious little to make you want to actively seek it out. Not swinging enough for disco and not....well, soulful...enough for soul, 'Ms Grace' occupies an awkward no-mans land that fails to satisfy anybody totally (or as I've said before, it's a song to like rather than love). The Tymes had done better than this, but since they'd been a recording outfit since the fifties then maybe they deserved a number one prize for good attendance.
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