Pink Noise

by Laura Mvula

Pink Noise cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 July 2021
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:37
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

After a challenging period that saw her dropped from her previous label, Laura Mvula boldly reinvented her sound on 'Pink Noise', trading orchestral soul for vibrant, 1980s-inspired synthpop. The record is dominated by explosive synthesizer hooks, slap-bass grooves, and heavily layered, triumphant vocal performances. It is widely celebrated as a joyous, critically acclaimed comeback that effectively channeled personal adversity into undeniable dancefloor anthems.

Genres

Descriptors: retro, synth, rhythmic, melodic, dance, soulful, vocal, synthesizers

Tracklist

  1. Safe Passage (3:12)
  2. Conditional (2:49)
  3. Church Girl (3:45)
  4. Remedy (4:02)
  5. Magical (4:12)
  6. Pink Noise (3:29)
  7. Golden Ashes (4:09)
  8. What Matters (feat. Simon Neil) (4:08)
  9. Got Me (3:26)
  10. Before The Dawn (4:21)

Credits

  • Dan Sanders - commissioned by
  • Oli Rockberger - backing vocals
  • Karl Adedare Rasheed-Abel - bass guitar
  • James Gardiner-Bateman - saxophone
  • Trevor Mires - trombone, bass trumpet, trombone, bass trombone
  • Mike Davis - trumpet
  • Tom Walsh - trumpet
  • James Douglas - cello, backing vocals

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