New band of the day – No 785: Labrinth

He might not be the UK Timbaland, but this Londoner's low-rent rap-inflected R&B is sure to join N-Dubz in the chartsHometown: London.The lineup: Labrinth (vocals, music).The background: Labrinth – who the spelling-conscious Sun is insisting on calling Labyrinth – is a 21-year-old producer, songwriter and musician working in that nether-zone between homegrown R&B, grime, rap and pop. As a consequence, he's being touted – again, mainly by the Sun – as our answer to Timbaland, the next go-...

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