Ala.Ni: You & I review – beguiling songs of doomed love

(No Format)It’s hard to fall for a new artist whose break came courtesy of that bastion of cutting-edge music programming, Later With Jools Holland. But Ala.Ni is a beguiling singer capable of torching lazy assumptions. Somewhere between Judy Garland and Julee Cruise, she is a west London-born, Paris-based former session singer of Grenadian extraction who harks back to a time when songbirds glided on gentle orchestral breezes. This assured debut is largely about a doomed love affair, a cu...

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