Our latest round of the best new pop features Neneh Cherry’s daughter, some gloriously OTT posturing and this year’s best song so far
Let’s just get some family history business out of the way first. Mabel is Neneh Cherry and producer Cameron McVey’s 19-year-old daughter. That means she had a fairly exciting childhood growing up in the mountains of Malaga, before spending 10 years in Sweden, where she studied music production. She now lives in London. But don’t assume she’s used her parents’ contacts for her own gains; she’s still unsigned and her debut single Know Me Better was produced by a mate of hers from Leeds rather than her dad or any of his famous pals. Also, it took her a while to get the confidence to let anyone hear her music, with only her best friend privy to what she was cooking up until three years ago. Regardless of backstory and genetics, Know Me Better is a bold debut chock-full of personality and underpinned by a gorgeous sense of yearning. Inspired musically by her love for Lauryn Hill, and lyrically by that point in a relationship when you start to show each other your weaknesses, it feels surprisingly carefree and comfortable in its own skin for a debut. The best bit is when the middle eight slinks into view, Mabel perfectly encapsulating those lazy weekends as she coos: “We go back to sleep around 20 to 10 / We wasted the morning but I’d do it again.”
Continue reading...by Michael Cragg via Electronic music | The Guardian
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