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Since stepping out from behind the boards as a sought-after producer in 2017, S-X has made one of the smoothest transitions into solo artist that we’ve seen in contemporary British music. The 28-year-old singer/songwriter, born Sam Gumbley, made his stamp in the music industry some years before his singing career, producing 2009 grime reload classic “Wooo […]
As we wave goodbye to another year in the terrordome and try not to think about what 2021 will bring, we can at least be grateful that British musicians somehow managed to top the year before—no mean feat, given the blockbuster works 2019 gave us. Established dons like Footsie, Manga and Potter Payper all released […]
Late last month, the crown prince of garage, Conducta took to Instagram to start teasing the imminent arrival of his new single, “Time”, featuring singer-songwriter JGrrey. It was a slightly unexpected team-up but JGrrey’s subtle club-leanings and Conducta’s finely-tuned instinct for melody have made it a heaven-sent one. Perhaps the most surprising part of it was […]
Last year, we opened this feature with the words “2019 has been strongly mixed”, and given the thunderstorm of horror that has been 2020—a dreadful cocktail of a globe-trotting deadly virus, worldwide economic devastation and worsening race relations—we’d do just about anything to go back to those halcyon days. However! Music, as always, has been an […]
The so-called death of R&B has been a topic of conversation for nearly a decade now. The discussion periodically gains steam, somewhat arbitrarily. It’s been the chatter of many Clubhouse rooms as of late, and it was addressed during a Billboard roundtable between Summer Walker, Jhené Aiko, Kehlani, and Teyana Taylor just last week. Skepticism […]
After several years of providing vocals and songwriting for club hits like Duke Dumont and Jax Jones’ “I Got U” and Second City’s “I Wanna Feel”, as well as backing vocals for A-listers like Adele and Leona Lewis, South London singer-songwriter Kelli-Leigh made the plunge into a solo career in 2018 with “Do You Wanna Be Loved Like […]
It appears that Tinashe is favoring transparency these days, at least in terms of her political and cultural beliefs. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the singer declared that she believes we need to put an end to genres because many, like urban, R&B, and rap, were founded on the basis of race. “I’m […]
Having already made a name for himself in the modelling world, London’s Tyrell Trey is now turning his talents to music with a charming new R&B cut entiteld “Worth”, his debut single. Inspired by his mother’s collection of classic soul and R&B records, “Worth” pairs his message of contentment and self-care with a restrained but nuanced […]
Kehlani‘s sophomore album, It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, is racking up impressive numbers within its first week. Early projections indicate the effort has a strong chance of debuting at No. 1, but is in a tight race with Nav’s Good Intentions and Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes. So, in an effort to gain an edge, Kehlani called on her […]
Raleigh Ritchie, everyone’s favourite pop-R&B crooner/actor from Bristol, is back with his brand new single, “Aristocrats”, which is his first new release since 2018’s “Time In A Tree“. Produced by Chris Loco, who provides an earworm concoction of cantering percussion, orchestral strings, and head-bopping bass, Raleigh flips the script on what some might deem to be ‘true’ Britishness. […]
