“The British singer shows notable growth and impactful emotion on her latest project”
“With stripped-back instrumentation and poignant emotion, the English singer’s latest release is a stopgap EP that punches above its weight.”
““What’s my pet name?” enquires Jorja Smith at the midpoint of Be Right Back, the highly-anticipated follow-up to her 2018 debut, Lost & Found. Speaking with a woman nicknamed Bejoice (“Bejoice, as in, like, rejoice?” Smith gleefully notes), the casual exchange reintroduces the English songwriters exceptionally warm presence. The downside to this moment, which serves as a closer to ‘Time’, is that ”
“Why is the shortest track always the sweetest? Under two minutes long, Time, on Jorja Smith’s eight-track Be Right Back, is a tender arrangement of vulnerable vocals over acoustic guitar. “I’m not here to hug you, I’m just for the night,” she howls. Smith’s 2018 debut album, Lost & Found, was a coming-of-age tale of self-discovery. Not much has changed since then: the same themes of disorientatio”
“make yourself at home in this sonic ‘waiting room’”
