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Stefflon Don: Island 54 review – seamless summer playlist
This long-awaited debut uses dancehall as a springboard into global styles, from electropop to South African amapiano
It may have been a dreary summer in the UK so far, but not on Island 54: the mythical setting for Birmingham-born rapper/singer Stefflon Don’s long-awaited debut album seems to perpetually exist at a balmy 30 degrees. Sure, but Island 54 benefits from crisp, stylish production and the knowledge that all anyone wants to listen to in the dog days of summer is a seamless, varied playlist that you can slap on repeat. The album is long, but Stefflon Don is a flexible MC; she sounds like the third member of D-Block Europe when she adopts a fleet-footed, Auto-Tuned flow on Madam Moiselle, a collaboration with the hyped London duo, and sounds appropriately seething alongside late Punjabi star Sidhu Moose Wala on Dilemma.
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