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Ego Ella May, from the 2020 album
Honey For Wounds on UpperRoom Records.
Honey For Wounds, South London-based artist
Ego Ella May provides sweet relief from troubling times with her jazzy neo-soul sound. On today s Song of the Day, she asks listeners, What if I wanna talk about suffering?
“I will, of course, continue to write about love,” May said in an interview with
Bandcamp. “But I’m also conscious of other things that happen in life, and I like to address them in song form. There are so many different themes on the album that it felt like a diary, even. ‘Girls Don’t Always Sing About Boys’ came about because I was sick of hearing songs about relationships on the radio. I wanted to talk about other things, and at the time I wasn’t thinking about love. Grenfell [the 2017 West London Tower fire that killed 72 people and injured just as many] had just happened, and my mind was awake. I was reading about sustainability and pollution, and train