When the first bits of their second album “Love Tatoo” start sounding, you get immersed in the soundtrack of a cult, exotic or American film of the 50´s with a singer imitating Betty Page. But Imelda May belongs to the XXI century and she is Irish. Her voice reminds to myths like Billie Holliday, Dinah Washington or Wanda Jackson and her music is a mix of the best rockabilly, blues, jazz,… all of it in a very contemporary style but with a 50´s touch. “Johnny Got a Boom Boom” or “Big Bad Handsome Man” are Classical pieces that sound both like Eddie Cochran or Jerry Lee Lewis or even to the Cramps or to a swing band. We are undoubtedly in front of one of the ladies of the current scene.
