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Nao: All We Know review – retro soul debut with funk to spare | Musique Non Stop

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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Nao: All We Know review – retro soul debut with funk to spare

(Little Tokyo/RCA)
An assured first offering from the east Londoner combines fast sonic cuts and painterly production with defiantly old-school touches

R&B and its close cousin, soul, have been plunged in the deep freeze for some time. Glacial minimalism has held sway for half a decade, not just in the deeper pockets of the nocturnal economy – where it has been percolating for at least that amount of time again – but the mainstream too. By mainstream we’re talking latterly popular former outliers such as Frank Ocean and the Weeknd (particularly before I Can’t Feel My Face, which rebranded him as accessible pop). Ice maiden Rihanna has led the female charge; FKA twigs refashioned the more recherché end of the genre over here. Copyists are too numerous to list.

The song Girlfriend steals, very respectfully, from Prince; on it, Nao sounds like an angel deep in a vat of syrup

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