New band of the day: Petite Noir (No 1,297)

Never mind the grammar, here's a South African artist making music that is genuinely striking and – just possibly – uniqueHometown: Cape Town, South Africa.The lineup: Yannick Iluga (vocals, instruments, production).The background: As soon as we heard the debut single by Petite Noir we were taken aback, and not because of the French grammatical error in the artist's name, with its lack of adjectival agreement – surely it should be either Petit Noir or Petite Noire? – but because we could...

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