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Speech Debelle returns with one of the standout cuts from her hugely acclaimed debut album, "Speech Therapy". Featuring a chorus from another debut artist making waves this year, Micachu, "Better Days" is a harder hitting, more beat-led piece of hip hop than some of her earlier releases, but loses none of their emotional charge.
Produced by Plutonic Lab during Speech's stay in Australia, Ms Debelle returned to Blighty without a chorus in place. After various ideas for singers were mooted she settled on Micachu, who could add a distinctive and distinctly British soul to proceedings. The result is blazing - swinging, snapping drums contrasted with deep double bass and acoustic guitar, Speech's clever, incisive, real lyrics and the unexpected twists of Micachu's melancholy chorus. As NME has already put it, it's "a slow-burning slice of pop that's both unsettlingly gloomy and joyously uplifitng."
The single also features bonus track, "Where Do We Go?" - a jazzy little number over which Speech ranges lyrically from the personal to the global.
With "Speech Therapy" already being tipped as one of the albums of the year, and celebs such as Thandi Newton showing their respectm "Better Days" is a reminder just why so many people are getting so excited about this young South Londoner....
*** After premier on Pitchfork TV and recently added to playlist to MTV 2 and MTV Base we have now uploaded onto You Tube...
http://www.youtube.com/user/ninja000
*** You can see 3 tracks from her Glastonbury Introducing performance here (one of 7 performances!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/200...speechdebelle/
*** Speech plays the free Time Out - On the Up night at Camden barfly Friday night, and will be at Lattitude, Soundwave, Secret Garden, Bloom + Bestival
SPEECH DEBELLE - "BETTER DAYS" FEAT. MICACHU - SINGLE BROUGHT FORWARD TO 27th JULY (BIG DADA)!
http://www.myspace.com/speechdebellemusic
Produced by Plutonic Lab during Speech's stay in Australia, Ms Debelle returned to Blighty without a chorus in place. After various ideas for singers were mooted she settled on Micachu, who could add a distinctive and distinctly British soul to proceedings. The result is blazing - swinging, snapping drums contrasted with deep double bass and acoustic guitar, Speech's clever, incisive, real lyrics and the unexpected twists of Micachu's melancholy chorus. As NME has already put it, it's "a slow-burning slice of pop that's both unsettlingly gloomy and joyously uplifitng."
The single also features bonus track, "Where Do We Go?" - a jazzy little number over which Speech ranges lyrically from the personal to the global.
With "Speech Therapy" already being tipped as one of the albums of the year, and celebs such as Thandi Newton showing their respectm "Better Days" is a reminder just why so many people are getting so excited about this young South Londoner....
*** After premier on Pitchfork TV and recently added to playlist to MTV 2 and MTV Base we have now uploaded onto You Tube...
http://www.youtube.com/user/ninja000
*** You can see 3 tracks from her Glastonbury Introducing performance here (one of 7 performances!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/200...speechdebelle/
*** Speech plays the free Time Out - On the Up night at Camden barfly Friday night, and will be at Lattitude, Soundwave, Secret Garden, Bloom + Bestival
SPEECH DEBELLE - "BETTER DAYS" FEAT. MICACHU - SINGLE BROUGHT FORWARD TO 27th JULY (BIG DADA)!
http://www.myspace.com/speechdebellemusic
"Extraordinary" The Times "A seriously brilliant album... Surely a star in the making." - Sunday Times "A brilliant new album." Observer Music Monthly "A terrific record." - Word "Terrific." - Uncut "Startlingly good" - The Guardian"One to seriously watch" - NME "One of British pop music's most intense, intelligent visionaries of this - or any other - decade" DJ "A superstar in the making" Pitchfork "A luscious original with incredible lyrics." - Independent "One eye on the streets and one eye on the top." - Time Out "Like no hip hop record you've ever heard" - Dazed & Confused "Ripping up the UK urban scene... As fresh as a daisy" - Mojo
