Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

The Guardian 0

(Atlantic)
Mvula’s renaissance continues with a bold album fuelled by 80s dance pop – and letting go

Raised in choirs then refined in the conservatoire, the recording artist Laura Mvula is the last singer you’d expect to rock huge shoulder pads, commanding you to “listen!” as a minimal 80s bassline unspools. But her recent rebirth as a diva with a keytar is one of the more convincing reinventions of recent times. Dua Lipa is not the only British solo female working 80s dance-pop correctly.

On Pink Noise – named after the frequencies slightly less harsh than white noise – Mvula channels both Janet Jackson and Grace Jones with verve. “Give in to the feeling!” she sings on the title track.