After three EPs, the 23-year-old south Londoner of Irish-Bangladeshi descent launches her debut LP with songs of high quality and consummate performance, joining the likes of Celeste and Arlo Parks as as likely huge soul stars. There are again the obvious comparisons to Amy Winehouse and a dash of Adele, especially the former with the 60s retro soul style of When You Were Mine and Feet Don’t Fail Me Now, but her individuality and range blossoms in the slower piano numbers such as Skin, Power, Unlearn You and Poison, which certainly has some simmering bite and echoes even of Nina Simone, while Trouble infusing some dub influence with brass. There’s a mixture of mental health, relationships, and politics to her lyrics, the latter in her anti-Brexit stance on Kingdom, and a maturity of timing and intimacy in many moments. A class act with an undoubted future and a voice of power and range. Out on Insanity Records / Speakerbox Recordings / Sony.
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