Broken Politics

Neneh Cherry

Almost three decades since Buffalo Stance, Neneh Cherry is making music no less attractive and colourful - the differences are just a deepening of mood and theme.

Fallen Leaves sets the tone, its downcast lyrics lifted by woody snares and harp into the song of someone alive and resolute. Kong combines the intense hi-hats of dub with classical instrumentation to create a Bjork-like soundscape.

Cherry’s vocals are gentle, her rhymes devastating, whether confronting forced migration or quoting The Last

Poets.

OUR VERDICT 8/10