GREENTEA PENG

Man Made (AMF)

Arlo Parks might have brought trip-hop back into the mainstream in 2021, but it was Bermondsey’s free-spirited Greentea Peng who really tapped into the cosmic possibilities of the genre on her debut LP. Peng’s concerns were often specialised – “Release all of my brothers on a weed charge”; “Eat some fuckin’ shrooms” – but her reggae and funkinflected music was a delight; a south London Erykah Badu, breathing life into hippy rhetoric. Standout track:

Be Careful