I had heard of speech debelle but never really bother to listen to her debut cd until i read she won the mercury prize for best new debut album and thought i should check her music out.Took a trip to HMV in canary wharf with the wifey and i can fairly say i wasn't disappointed.
The cd is titled ' speech therapy and it's kinda of autobiographical capturing her troubled upbringing and homelessness, released on the big dada label, home to roots manuva and the rapper ty. Really laid back and thought provoking . Musically it sounds organic and sparse and does not sound over produced like most new cds . For me, i would not class it as strictly a hip hop album because yes it sounds hip hop,but has a bit of every thing in the mix
It effortlessly flows from hip hop, poetry, soul and a bit of jazz and grown folk music but my only gripe is that the tracks are damn too short, when it hits that high note.. boom.. it finishes.
but all in all a very very good debut from corryanne elliot or should i say 'speech debelle' Debelle happens to be the fashion label run by her grandma
Enjoy
Stand outs -the key, searching, bad boy finish this album (which is the first song she played for big dada executives)
I honestly hope she can keep it up and not go the lady dynamite way.make a good first album and struggle afterwards
the guardian reviews
the times online says
Album-recommended
lets see wot happens on CD 2
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