John Burgess 

Lady Sovereign: Jigsaw

Her second album is surprisingly poppy and chimes well with the times, says John Burgess
  
  


For this, her second album, Louise Harman has taken a similar maverick route to the one Robyn chose ahead of her chart-topping success. She's left the major label that helped her sell 300,000 copies of the rather Americanised Public Warning in 2006 and set up her own imprint to regain full artistic control. Her first decision? To return to working with her original producer, Medasyn, despite having been courted by Jay Z and Pharrell. The surprisingly poppy, chiming well with the times, and redolent of Betty Boo injected with Harman's back-of-the-bus humourresult is . So Human raves up the tune and rhythm from the Cure's Close to Me and, according to Let's Be Mates, if you want to hang with Lady Sovereign you need to be simple, like the colour purple, and "drink cider like wurzels". That might narrow down her audience, but at least she's sounding more like herself these days.

 

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