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Album Review: Lianne La Havas – Blood

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Lianne La Havas makes her triumphant return from a semi-unintentional five year hiatus with her third self-titled album, released 17th July on Warner Records/Nonesuch. She first broke into our consciousness back in 2012 with her debut Is Your Love Big Enough?. However, self-admittedly, something about La Havas’ career has just never quite skyrocketed since. She …

Soulful Lianne La Havas is back to fill our ears with joy with her new track ‘Cant Fight’, taken from her self titled album, due 17th July via Warner Music Group. Co-written and produced by Mura Masa – ‘Can’t Fight’ is a beautifully crafted ode to the push-pull of a relationship that is struggling to find its …

Following on from the glorious Paper Thin we covered here on Backseat Mafia, Lianne La Havas is back with another taste of her forthcoming eponymous third album with a new track, Can’t Fight. Produced and co-written by Mura Masa, it talks of a struggling relationship. Of the track, Lianne says “You know it’s not good, …

Things are happening in the Lianne La Havas camp. She’s announced a new self-titled album is coming out on July 17th via Warner’s, and she’s followed up a brilliant NPR Tiny Desk Concert at home she did with a new track – Paper Thin. Steeped in (but not bound by) 90s R&B of the Destiny’s …

Sometimes an initial listen to a new album can give you the wrong impression. When I heard Lianne La Havas’ sophomore effort in early August, it threw me slightly. Having appreciated her debut album as an enjoyable offering of pop-flecked neo-soul, I was fascinated to hear where she’d go next, but I was temporarily bamboozled …

In my day it was called YTS. When you wanted to learn a ‘trade’ like plumbing, or typewriting, or being a zookeeper (probably) or a footballer, you signed up on a course that was part schooling and part learning on the job, and they (the government that is) paid you something like £17.50 per week …