Neneh Cherry: “I’ve got this new music that, to me, feels better than anything else that I’ve ever done"

With Blank Project, her first solo album in 18 years, the musician contemplates a new generation of strong female performers and why they shouldn’t compromise

It’s moving-in madness at Neneh Cherry’s house. Back to London after eight years in Stockholm, her phones aren’t working, missing leads are still packed away and there’s a houseful of people to boot.

“There are always heaps of people at my house, whatever we do,” says the musician, reeling through the roll call. “There are no extra bodies in my room,” she says with that unmistakable husky laugh, “but I don’t know if I want to look.”

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by Alexandra Spring via Electronic music | The Guardian