Tribal

The gloves are off on Imelda May’s fourth album. Gone are the languid ballads and stately genre pieces; in their place, a rollicking, spitfire take on rockabilly. She kicks up the dust on the thigh-slapping “Hellfire Club” and “Five Good Men”, and stinging electric guitar underpins her vocal prowess on “Wild Woman”. It’s one of a few tracks where May explores female archetypes—“Gypsy In Me”, “Little Pixie”—but she forges her own on this irresistible romp.