Music Review

Life Is Sweet (1996)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Maria McKee; Genre: Rock

Prodigiously gifted pop chameleon Maria McKee ventures still further astray from her erstwhile roots rock on Life Is Sweet, borrowing some surprising stylistic cues from no less a lizard than David Bowie. Add vintage Mick Ronson-style guitar to McKee's lovely, deeply twisted diva confessionals, and you have a rich exercise in romantically obsessive glam rock that, at its considerable best, suggests a Polly Jean Stardust.

Originally posted Mar 29, 1996 Published in issue #320 Mar 29, 1996 Order article reprints

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