CocknBullKid -‘Adulthood.’ (M
oshi Moshi/Island)
The debut album from Anita Blay is one of the releases I have been
most looking forward to this year. Shortly before Christmas at the end of last year, I received a promo of five tracks from this twelve track album, and I was certainly won over. Now that the final, finished product has arrived,
it has been well worth the wait overall.
Ms. Blay’s music is a clever and infectious mix of high quality pop, fifty years of soul and R’n’B and generous lashings of indie. the three singles released so far from this album -‘One Eye Closed,’ ‘Asthma Attack’ and the particularly excellent ‘Hol
d On To Your Misery’demonstrate how great her music is, and how varied and diverse both her influences are and her approach.
Perhaps there are a couple of duff tracks (‘Mexico’ and ‘Hoarder(The House That Heartbreak Built)’) but this is a strong debut. In a landscape littered with faux-folk and meat’n’two veg indie bands, Ms. Blay
is a ve
ry welcome presence. She is a real star and it would be nothing short of a crying shame if the general public do not make this a huge hit.
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Adulthood is released on May 23 on Moshi Moshi/Island.