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Lady Sovereign - Jigsaw
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Jigsaw is the first for Lady Sovereign’s Midget record label, and I’ve been excited to hear what an unbridled SOV sounds like. I was a fan of her debut, Public Warning, despite its amateurish detours at times, and was eager to see some evolution. She’s making the press rounds now, telling anyone who’ll listen how excited she is to able to do a little more experimenting. “My label, my way… I run my own shit now,” the artist formerly known as Louise Amanda Harman declared. “That should be interesting.” Really, though, for all she talks about Jigsaw being a collection of very different tracks, it seems that there’s at least one common theme throughout- quality. As in, a lack thereof. In other words, this album is really fucking bad. How bad? Well, I can pretty much guarantee that it’s the last you’ll hear of Lady Sovereign....full text |
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I’m not exactly sure how I stumbled upon Lady Sovereign right when that debut album came out back in ‘06 (Public Warning). But somehow I did. Just to prove that downloading does work and helps the music business, and I’m not talking the corporate sponsored sort... I’d also thought I’d one day pick up the actual debut. The first track I snagged by accident was "Love Me or Hate Me." Based off that, I looked for a few more tracks, maybe grabbing five total from her debut. I listened to them for a little bit, registered my interest, and then deleted them, as is the case with the few songs I download through non-sanctified means (just as you’d do if you listened to the radio). Fast forward to 2009, when Lady Sovereign’s second album, Jigsaw, premieres. If I hadn’t been exposed to and became slightly interested in the first release, I would’ve had no interest in reviewing the follow-up, nor would I have gone ahead and purchased the debut (used, I’m afraid, but that’s legal to do)....full text |
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| Latimesblogs |
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When British rapper Lady Sovereign first emerged in 2005 with the gum-smacking, trunk-rattling single "Cha Ching," she seemed to be the grime genre's best potential ambassador to the American pop charts. Her career since then, however, has been an attempt to find a singular sound among many different styles. Is she a boozier, potty-mouthed Gwen Stefani? An heir to the hip-hop traditions of Def Jam, her onetime label? Or a talented but scattershot MC still escaping the whiff of novelty? Her second album, "Jigsaw," tries to find common ground in a now-ubiquitous strain of electro-flavored club rap. It's sonically a good fit for her nimble and still undeniable flow, but the wheels come off whenever Sov's newfound earnestness undermines her insouciant appeal. Take her Dr. Luke collaboration "So Human," which swipes the bass line and steel-drum figure from the Cure's "Close to Me" to carry a generic had-a-bad-day lament....full text |
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