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Verdict: Slow-burning break-up ballads
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Five years ago, Laura Mvula seemed set to become a huge star. The Birmingham singer s second album, The Dreaming Room, won a prestigious Ivor Novello award, and she became a firm favourite of Elton John and Prince.
The latter covered one of her songs, Green Garden, and offered regular advice before his death in 2016.
But wider success proved elusive, leaving the classically-trained Mvula fearing for her future. Was her piano-led soul and jazz too complex for the charts? Had that notoriously difficult second album derailed her career and, as she entered her 30s, was she simply too old to be pop ? Riddled with doubt, she went back to the drawing board her laptop and portable keyboard and came up with a stunning reinvention.
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By Paul Glynn
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In 2018, then-BBC politics presenter Andrew Neil ended one of his This Week programmes by getting guests Michael Portillo and MP Caroline Flint to join him for a performance of the latest online dance craze, Skibidi.
As the bizarre scene unfolded, the show s other guest, Bobby Gillespie, remained rooted to his seat wearing an obdurate and slightly weary expression.
The Primal Scream frontman, whose band helped to merge club culture with rock n roll sensibilities in the early 90s, felt he had earlier been cut off by the host while debating the impact of Brexit, neo-liberal capitalism, and the rise of far-right politics globally, and was now in no mood for such frivolity.
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