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This is one of those moments – a Lianne LaHavas, Michael Kiwanuka, Tinashe pre-launch moment.
A friend sent me a video of Kwabena performing an unbelievable cover of “Lost Child” for the Royal Family a while back (or Prince Harry nervously sitting next to Goldie, watch it after the jump). If ever there were a moment for this guy, it’s now. There is precious little information about him floating around but I will dig around and get back to you, I promise.
The current funneling of the very best of the 80s (Kate Bush, The Bangles, Fleetwood Mac etc) through the world of alternative pop music by the likes of Niki and The Dove, Gotye, Toro y Moi & co seems to be churning out the musical equivalent of anti-depressants. Without the worrying side effects. The Fox is a particular favourite in my house (ie: enforced listening). After a few weeks of making up my own utterly ridiculous words I looked up the lyrics to this song online, and its up beat power-punch crunchiness made even less sense, if it really is about insomnia.
Download Niki & The Dove “The Fox” here. Happy times.
Sometimes it’s worth stopping to think about how incredibly recent it is that an artist could explode this quickly. For some people like Lianne, a natural performer and songwriter, it’s a great thing. For a writer so young this song has such a timeless vein of universal truth running through it, which is probably why so many of the Youtube comments involve crying. There’s certainly something about the direct to camera delivery that’s reminiscent of the horrible moment you catch yourself crying in the mirror and it suddenly feels even worse. Or so I’m told, ahem.
Lianne is currently on tour in Europe throughout the spring/ summer.
Ah, Jessie Ware, the future doyenne of classy British electro-soul or some other such silly made up genre. Whoever is in charge of pop music (Cowell? Guetta? Satan?) please find it in the gaping chasm where your soul should be to make Jessie Ware a great big pop star we can all be proud of. Thanks.
