Critiques by SwanoDown — Patrick Moran RSS

With shimmering tintinnabulations of percussion that part like a beaded curtain to reveal successive sweeps of strings, Nigerian musician Ré Olunuga hooks you right out of the gate with “Èkó La Wá".

Ainjo’s torch song intensity, which smolders under the song’s gauzy surface, assures us she will triumph over self-pity, no matter how seductive it seems.