“While Leanne La Havas’s previous albums – 2012’s acoustic-led Is Your Love Big Enough? and 2015’s neo-soul dabbling Blood – had their moments, they never quite reflected the spirit of her captivating live performances. On this delayed third album, she has managed to harness that purity across 11 songs that purposefully bloom. Where previously the production sometimes intruded, here the Londoner’s ”
“third time’s the charm (and a shrewd play for self-ownership)”
“Is any current artist more equipped to write about love than Lianne La Havas? We hear love songs every single day. Most of them just wash over as the default manifestation of pop songwriting. Yet Lianne La Havas writes songs that stick with you. She’s spoken in interviews of having fans come up to her to tell her how her music coloured the early days of a couple’s relationship, or helped them thro”
“Paring her sound back to little more than her skillful guitar-playing and deep, husky voice, the London songwriter explores the aftermath of a breakup with confidence and repose.”
