On the follow-up to the 2018 debut album, London-based singer and songwriter’s latest offering is an off-kilter collage of musings on motherhood, birth, transitions, and love. Written with her childhood friend, Oscar-nominated composer Mica Levi and Coby Sey, Tirzah’s journey into sounds is primitive, DIY, offbeat, and sonically electric. Rolling along the avant-garde edge of trip-hop the arrangements which include familiar sounds including the clearing of one’s throat, ambient noise and sonic otherworldly interruptions, and delicate natural vocals that tell a story of love and wonderment. Colourgrade is a fascinating listen, far from polished pop, generously intimate, and rewardingly sensual and daring. Tirzah.
FKA Twigs Caprisongs
Colourgrade
Pink Noise
Be Right Back
Call Me A Fool
Springfield Rd
Before
A Stunning Third Album
What's Your Pleasure
Through Water
Can't Stop Spinning
A Creative Sensation
Norman Fucking Rockwell
Thrill again
Funk From The UK
Chaka Khan #LikeSugar
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'Love What Survives' Mount Kimbie
Ultraviolet You
Alison Moyet Her Way
GoldFrapp Beats Beyond
Nite Jewel
'Cause it's Missy.
Making it better.
Anticipating Sampha
Boo Hoo from Nite Jewel.
Yuna's Crush.
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