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Tyla Seamlessly Marries Pop With Amapiano on Luminous Self-Titled Debut: Album Review
Tyla introduces herself as South Africa's ampiano pop representative with her sweltering, self-titled debut.
Last year, Tyla established herself as a promising star with “Water,” her career-launching Top 10 single that earned her a Grammy long before she had a complete body of work in hand. But the song was proof of a working formula: “popiano,” a twist on South African amapiano that she uses to describe her blend of the genre’s piano-driven, tech-house beats and the progressive tempos of pop and R&B. On “Jump,” featuring Gunna and Jamaican dancehall DJ and rapper, Skillibeng, Tyla unlocks a new level of self-assurance, something you can distinctly hear in the way she phrases “prefer” in the first verse.
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