Lianne La Havas – Live At The Roundhouse (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 20:46 minutes | 229 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
Lianne La Havas plays a very special, solo live show at the iconic Roundhouse in London this July, to be livestreamed to fans around the world. This multi-camera, one-off performance will be time-zoned to specific regions, & with no actual audience in attendance, the only way to catch it will be to purchase tickets to the livestream broadcast. Lianne will be showcasing new songs from her new album, “Lianne La Havas” as well as firm favourites from her previous records.
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Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:03 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
With her third album, British singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas once again proves that her voice is unlike anything else in this world. She unleashes its full transcendence straight out of the gate with the sexy piano R&B of “Bittersweet,” going from a husky, dusky alto on the verses to soaring high above the trees on the chorus. For the dream-like “Green Papaya,” she manages to match it to the ambient strings so they together sound like pouring liquid—water finding its way around rocks. Her style is soul and R&B that refuses to fit neatly into a box; no wonder Prince was a big fan and mentored her creatively in his last years. There’s a Roberta Flack tenderness to “Courage” and shades of Alicia Keys on the simmering “Can’t Fight,” and La Havas easily branches out to cover Radiohead’s “Weird Fishes,” drawing out the words “eyes” and “I” to dizzying effect. Meanwhile, “Seven Days” and “Please Don’t Make Me Cry”—all stuttering percussion and free-floating melody—make a solid case for the return of trip-hop. Her jazz phrasing on “Read My Mind”—magic on the line “sweet joy when a girl meets a boy”—is like an aural push-pull with the song’s gentle rubber-band-bounce rhythm before the whole thing unspools into piano trills and hypnotic chanting: “What are you waiting for?” Single “Paper Thin” uses organ and laidback drums to set a slow and easy rhythm, building a safe cocoon for La Havas’ fragile, low-to-the-ground delivery. “Paper-thin/God only knows the pain you’re in… I know your pain is real/But you won’t let it heal,” she soothes. It’s a cliché that music is an escape, but an apt one here. – Shelly Ridenour
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Lianne La Havas – Blood (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1 kHz | Time – 40:38 minutes | 442 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | @ Nonesuch / Warner Music UK
Blood is Lianne La Havas’s new album released on Nonesuch Records. La Havas’s 2012 debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?, was “wonderfully refreshing,” says NPR’s Tom Moon. And on the new album, she’s created songs like the single “What You Don’t Do,” which features “the kind of stunning, kinetic performance we rarely hear on the radio these days.” (more…)
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Lianne La Havas – Is Your Love Big Enough? {Deluxe Edition} (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1 kHz | Time – 1:02:49 minutes | 657 MB | Genre: Alternative
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Nonesuch
Following critically acclaimed EPs, sold-out shows worldwide and a BBC Sound of 2012 nomination, songstress Lianne La Havas has emerged as one of the U.K.’s shining new prospects. The honey toned vocalist captivated audiences with her appearance on Later … with Jools Holland in 2011 and excitement quickly spread. Her full-length debut, Is Your Love Big Enough? is a profound statement about the many facets of love, blending elements of pop, folk and soul. The material on the album ranges from the lyrically compelling opener “Don’t Wake Me Up” to the stunning piano tune “Gone.” Is Your Love Big Enough? has already been praised byThe Washington Post as not only the best debut of the year, but arguably one of the year’s best albums.
Reviews
“…a 22-year-old Londoner with a haunting, jazz-inflected voice…” – Entertainment Weekly
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