“Pink Noise is the righteously groove-laden emancipation of Laura Mvula”
“Raised in choirs then refined in the conservatoire, the recording artist Laura Mvula is the last singer you’d expect to rock huge shoulder pads, commanding you to “listen!” as a minimal 80s bassline unspools. But her recent rebirth as a diva with a keytar is one of the more convincing reinventions of recent times. Dua Lipa is not the only British solo female working 80s dance-pop correctly. On Pi”
“a triumph of sparkling ’80s-style ear candy”
“Laura Mvula has joked that she “came out of the womb wearing shoulder pads.” Given the tone of her third album, Pink Noise, that could be true. It’s packed with the classic sounds of mid-’80s pop: sparkly synths, a super-tight rhythm section and huge production. It’s a style she trialled on this February’s 1/f, an EP that reworked songs from her back catalogue that shed their acoustic orchestrati”
