Sixty-coats-of-lacquer retro-soul with a thoroughly modern wound: Ronson and Salaam Remi build a Motown stage for Winehouse to bleed on, and "Rehab"'s gallows humor became prophecy nobody wanted confirmed. "Love Is a Losing Game" is standards-book material written at twenty-two. A perfect album whose afterlife makes it almost unbearable.
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