Album Review: "Café Racers" (Stereo Review, 1984)

Performance: Icy hot
Recording: Very good

Kim Carnes's latest album is a high-tech look at a woman wrestling with romance — or, actually, the lack of it. Always a soulful singer who nevertheless imbued her records with a detached sort of L.A. slickness, Carnes takes slickness to the limit with "Cafe Racers," a collection of frenetic rhythm numbers and ballads.

Stereo Review, Volume 49. 1984.



Café Racers was reissued by Culture Factory in 2013: culturefactoryusa.com