Winehouse’s posthumous album turns out to be bitter one for her Father

Amy Winehouse’s posthumous album, Lioness: the Hidden treasures will be at the stores on Monday, but one listener will find it hard to hear it and it will be none other than her father.

 Amy’s father Mitch Winehouse, who has setup a charity in his daughter’s name, after she passed away at the of 27 n the year 2010, heard the collection of 12 sound tracks  recorded from as early as 2002, a year before the release of her debut album "Frank."

Winehouse released just two albums in her brief career, with 2006’s "Back to Black," featuring hits "Rehab" and "Love is a Losing Game," asserted her as a major talent and earning five Grammy Awards.

The artist was famous for her beehive hairstyle and rich, soulful singing voice. At times, she struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, and had a troubled marriage and was often in the headlines for the wrong reasons.

 When Winehouse died at her north London home there were high alcohol levels in her blood, and her last filmed performance was in Serbia in June when the singer was jeered by the crowd as she struggled to perform songs and stay upright.

Unlike Winehouse’s fans, he said that the experience had been "difficult," with the memories of the late chart topper still raw.

He added, "We were finding it difficult to listen to Amy’s music, but we had to listen to it because if it wasn’t up to scratch we wouldn’t have allowed it to go out. We weren’t pleasantly surprised. We were stunned at how wonderful the album is. (But) at
the moment I can’t listen to it. In the years to come I will be able to and people have to make their own minds up".

Alexis Petridis of the Guardian newspaper in a three-out-of-five star rating, said, "It was clearly a bit of struggle to cobble together the material for this album".

Early reviews of the album have been mixed. The album is due to be released on Universal Music’s Island Records label.

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