“The last song that yanked me by the collar like Laura Mvula's "Like the Morning Dew" was Anna Meredith's "Nautilus". Both start with a blast of absolutely delicious maximalism; where Meredith had that blast of "Pink Elephants on Parade" horns, Mvula dazzles with a many-layered vocal stream that's something like Laura Nyro recording a Beach Boys song, wrapped in thick ribbons of brass, and just as ”
