Amy Winehouse new album 'Hidden Treasures' 'faithful to her legacy'

Amy Winehouse's forthcoming posthumous album is "faithful to her legacy", its producer has claimed.

Salaam Remi, who worked with the singer throughout her music career, insisted that the LP - called Lioness: Hidden Treasures - has undergone only two weeks of polishing and "exists on its own merits".

At a listening session for the record in London's Soho, The Guardian reports Remi saying: "[It's] just what you'd do with any recording.

"Lots of people are going to want to remember other aspects of her life, but what we have here highlights that musically and creatively, she was the tops. She was a great musician and a great songwriter as well. She wasn't a musical fluke."

Describing working on the album is a "healing process", he continued: "I had a big brother relationship with her... and I didn't want to rehash the pain that I feel now, in 12 months' time.

"We want this album to be good enough to exist on its own merits, and we think it's faithful to her legacy. Whether you can hear every lyric on every song or not, you can always hear the emotion there."

Remi described album cut 'Our Day Will Come' as pointing "the way forward to the doo wop sound of Back To Black", while 'Between the Cheats' "shows one of the main directions in which she was heading".

Lioness: Hidden Treasures is released on December 5.

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