By Ernest Barteldes

"I'm not gonna die for you, you might as well face the truth", say the lyrics to the title track of Yoko Ono's new album (the only new song on the disc), which serves as a literal 'screw you’ to the various critics who have maligned her for almost forty years now since she began contributing with her late husband on albums like Life With The Lions or Two Virgins.

This record proves that Ono’s music - recently embraced by Djs and alternative musicians - might have been far ahead from her time. Reworked by several contemporary names, many of the songs are updated and also refreshed, as happens with "Revelations" (Ono and Cat Power duet with a simple piano backing), "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do" (with an orchestral arrangement from The Apples in Stereo) and "Everyman Everywoman", which receives a sort of a faux-60s treatment from Blow Up

As happens in many remix albums, not everything works – Jason Pierce's vision of "Walking On Thin Ice", the last piece Ono recorded with John Lennon (they were mixing the song on that fateful December night) sounds eerily depressing with its much slower tempo, and the fake orgasmic sounds in "Kiss Kiss Kiss" (remixed by Peaches) are still dreadful.

The most adventurous remix here is clearly "Cambridge 1969/2007". In the hands of the Flaming Lips, Yoko's moans and Lennon's feedbacks are transformed into an electronic jazz piece. This is an album for those who have put the past behind them, and are able to appreciate – and rediscover - the artistry of both Yoko and her new musician friends.