Her talent flames into incandescence and out of it her flesh shrinks into bone. In AMY, it's arresting to watch her so unguarded, putting her makeup on in a bar bathroom before a gig, giving a tour of her apartment in character as a haughty maid. There is no raw audio on the soundtrack whatsoever it's much glossier than the film itself, which heavily relies on rough footage and successfully illuminates Winehouse outside her press narrative as a result. The rest of the soundtrack is a mix of album cuts and live recordings, compiled primarily as signposts for the documentary's plot. "We're Still Friends", performed live at the Union Chapel in 2006, shows Winehouse on the cusp between her peak and downfall the recording is precise and elegant, and she wears her strung-out voice like a crown. AMY: The Original Soundtrack, however, contains only one true "new" recording. She's already had one posthumous compilation album (2011's poorly named, respectability-minded Lioness: Hidden Treasures), but if the tracks available on YouTube are any indication-let alone the unreleased professional recordings that her still-active fanbase lists and obsesses over on message boards-there are plenty of demos, live versions, and discarded mixes left. Winehouse began her public singing career at age 16 with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, performing and recording regularly for the next decade until her death.
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