BBC Sound of 2015

the Cabbage guy sounds just like Jarvis Cocker in the '80s, kinda eerie

Obviously two tracks isn't much to go on but I think there's a bit more going on with Nadia Rose, regardless of the beats there's something about her reminds me of something from way way back, like pre-grime and pre-garage, that I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe even She-Rockers/Neneh Cherry level far back. Problem with turning up on this list is the personality will usually end up either be sanded down or cartoonishly inflated to the satisfaction.

(Choosing to ignore rtc's choice of adjectives btw but other than Lady Leshurr I dunno who's being referred to, it's not like anyone could be arsed to stan for Lady Lykez or Mz Bratt or whoever).

sandé'd down

she's done more than two tracks, or do you just mean ~official singles? there's "mufasa", "dfwt" and "station" too, plus her features on kideko's "crank it" and dollar bin's "retail therapy"

Yeah I only know the two singles but that's quite enough to half-bake a theory.

Rag N Bone Man, whose current hit single I detest, won the critics' choice poll which is sometimes a barometer for the winner of this one.

The Brits Critics Choice Award 2017

Soul singer Ray BLK has topped the BBC's Sound Of 2017 list, which aims to predict the most exciting new music for the year ahead.
It is the first time an unsigned artist has won the honour - which has previously gone to Adele and Sam Smith.

stefflon don mixtape released a mixtape since upthread, p wack imo but lex might see more in it

i forgot she was on that jeremih 'london' tune though. creeper jam blowing up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrl6ugMTQ4

already a reliable pleaser. not quite sure/not quite looking forward to what the next step for her will be, maybe she doesn't really one tho

*doesn't really need

i gave the stefflon don mixtape a really quick listen before xmas party season and was pretty into it, didn't realise she was so dancehall. pleasantly surprised.

keep waiting for ray blk to deliver that one tune i can't get enough of, she's talented enough

i just got an email from network rail's pr people about naughty nadia rose shooting her video on train tracks, lol

Think Nadia Rose's album might be pretty much in the can already, there's been a short string of new songs lately that suggests so. I think the next step for her (career wise at least) is a well-trodden enough path at this stage. Where RAY BLK goes next is more interesting - depends to an extent on the reason why she's still unsigned. If she's going it alone then it could be really exciting - and god the UK needs a successful new soul singer who isn't another production line perky stage school type - but I dunno, the potential for someone to decide to just remove all the grit is quite high.

i'm relistening to the ray blk ep that never grabbed me and the thing is it's SO derivative, not just the nods to mariah or the cardigans or whomever (which she doesn't really elevate into her own thing) but the way she sings about her themes, the words and phrases she uses, i keep thinking of teyana taylor

yeah stefflon don is properly fucking great, totally uninterested in being worthy or respectable, thought we'd never have a uk female rapper like her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fcbJzKmTm0

tight nooki is v v satisfying (even with the 'cheat' of using that beat)

ray blk ep that never grabbed me and the thing is it's SO derivative

stefflon don is properly fucking great

http://i.imgur.com/2dcE0eV.jpg