With
Suburban Voodoo,
Paul Carrack re-launched his solo career following a successful stint with
Squeeze that produced a hit with his lead vocal on "Tempted." By this point,
Carrack was playing with
Nick Lowe, who produced
Suburban Voodoo, and the album sounds very much like a
Lowe album with
Carrack singing. That's all to the good, though, since
Carrack's supple voice is well-suited to
Lowe's updated '60s rock & roll style.
Carrack scored his first solo Top 40 hit with "I Need You," but that was one of the slighter tracks on an unusually tuneful album.