Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Albums of the Year # 19 Lady Wray - Piece of Me

 



Another great album to bring down the curtain of what's been a wonderful January for new music. Piece of Me the second album, from American Soul / Hip Hop artist Lady Wray.


The record is soulful and funky in spades. Boom-Bap drums and chunky basslines The whole thing deeply embedded in the great Black American music traditions of the last sixty years. 


Lady Wray and the backing female vocals are at the heart of the mix which is beautifully velvet rich, and wonderfully reminiscent of Marvin, Al, Aretha, Gladys and Missy. Also Amy Winehouse came to my mind on a regular basis.


Thick with romance and heartbreak,; plenty of  reminders of the past while still sounding utterly contemporary, Piece of Me is a proper treat from start to finish.


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