“Every album released comes freighted with hope, this one more than most. Mabel is one of the year’s hottest breakout acts, having gone from box-fresh to bona fide phenomenon in the space of two years. One minute, she had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-her visual cameo in the video for Skepta’s magisterial Shutdown (2015). The next, she’d had her own hit, 2017’s Finders Keepers. Then came more lighter fl”
“Mabel’s debut album has been a long time coming. In the past couple of years she’s been constantly tipped as “one to watch”, opened for Harry Styles on tour, performed on Jimmy Fallon in the US, had a handful of Platinum selling singles and released (and then re-issued) her brilliant ‘Ivy to Roses’ mixtape. All of which has piled on the pressure for her first record, the knowingly titled ‘High Exp”