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Zsela: Big for You review – modern R&B with a leisurely, old-school charm
The American singer’s buttery voice comes to the fore on an arresting debut in styles ranging from Kate Bush to the Boss
Her approach on this debut album is both arrestingly old school and totally up to date, given the shake-up artists such as Beyoncé or Willow are giving to already creaking notions of genre participation. On Big for You, the sequel to a well-received 2020 EP, the LA-based Thompson smears that rich voice across a range of styles, maintaining a leisurely pace and continuity of mood even as the approaches evolve. The star, though, remains Zsela’s buttery voice, perhaps most effective accompanied by unadorned guitar and swelling atmospherics on Watersprite, or piano and percussion on Moth Dance.
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