Delilah: From the Roots Up – review

(Atlantic)Delilah's label contends that she "doesn't sound like anyone else", which isn't quite true: Lianne La Havas and Ren Harvieu are fellow Brit newcomers who have aimed their whisper-to-a-scream vocal capabilities in an understated direction. Delilah distinguishes herself by slowing things to a crawl and adding off-kilter percussive clicks and clacks. "I cannot breathe," she says on Breathe, summing up the airlessness of her debut album – its languor, and a dark minimalism owing much to ...

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