![]() ![]() ![]() Some, like Sam Cooke’s sparsely arranged Lost and Lookin’ and Simone’s civil rights anthem Blackbird, need little reworking to suit the album’s spare, haunting mood. Munroe is a decent songwriter herself but Black Acid Soul mostly comprises Sixties tunes once performed by Nina Simone, Tim Hardin, Irma Thomas and others. Now the long-delayed debut album is here and the hype is largely justified: Black Acid Soul is a potent record that, without sounding self-consciously retro, harks back to an era before AutoTune and Pro Tools. A trickle of singles and hyper-stylised videos last year won praise, with Gilles Peterson calling her “the Grace Jones of jazz”. With producer Chris Seefried she has stripped away the backing, foregrounded her voice and embraced soul-jazz (and adding a posh honorific to your new name never seems to hurt – from Lady Day to Lady Gaga). Time for another rethink: Black Acid Soul recasts Munroe as Lady Blackbird.
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