Can't wait what Selah Sue has in store for us next.
I'll be interested to see if this will get any traction here. I read somewhere that this will get a US release sometime this Spring. It is still a top-seller in Belgium a year after its release-I picked this up on a recent family visit back to Belgium, and I have been playing this non-stop since getting it. For now it's a mega-seller in just a few European countries. What an incredible album! Had this been released by a UK or US singer instead of someone in little-known Belgium, I have no doubt this would be a mega-seller around the globe. "Act 3" brings again more upbeat, urgent tracks like the great "Crazy Suffering Style" and "Fyah Fyah". How they managed to get him on board for this complete unknown and then-unproven Belgian artist, I will never know, and the weird thing is that is isn't even the best track on here, not by a long shot. "Act 2" brings several slower songs, including a pensive acoustic ""Mommy" but also "Please", which features Cee-Lo Green on vocals. Concluding the "first act", "Black Part Love" is the best track on the album for me, an irresitable song sure to bring any wallflower out to the floor, just beautiful. The album's best tracks are front-loaded in the "first act" for sure, starting with the strong lead-off track "This World" (3rd single), the urgent "Piece of Mind" (one of my favorite tracks on here) and also "Raggamuffin" (1st single) and "Crazy Vibes" (2nd single) on which she croons "I was never really into music/Until I was nine years old/But now I can't control myself from grooving/It's time for me to show" and show she does! Incidentally, she wrote or co-wrote most of the songs of the album. "Selah Sue" (12 tracks 47 min.) can be divided into 3 "acts", the first 5 tracks, followed by the middle 4 tracks, concluding with the last 3 remaining tracks.
If you are not familiar with her music, she brings a mix of reggae and soul, reminding us at times of Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and even Amy Winehouse for good measure. old when she released this self-titled album last year. Niko Batallones, Sue (real name: Sanne Putseys) is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Belgium. Reason did, but then stuck around far too long. Pop albums, you see, they’re all about going straight to the point. As much as I’d love to wrap myself around what I once described as an “aural marshmallow”, the second half of the album starts repeating itself and you feel frustrated. I would say it’s a good pop album, but it relies too much on fluff: the 50-minute album could easily be shorn of, say, fifteen minutes of filler. Reason showcases Selah’s vocals without swerving too much stylistically. “Alone” is powered by a groovy guitar lick “Together”, her collaboration with Childish Gambino, is a pretty tasty clash.
Reason, the follow-up, swings firmly towards the soul side, with less of the cliché and more of the cool urban sensibility. Her eponymous full-length debut, released in 2011, showcases her gooey, husky voice as it tiptoes between soul and reggae. More known in her native Belgium, you might’ve heard her collaboration with Cee Lo Green. Selah Sue’s an artist you probably haven’t heard much of in this side of the world. Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Flute, Tenor Saxophone – Tracy WannomaeĪutoharp, Bass, Organ, Strings – Pieterjan Seauxīass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Strings – Matt Schwartzĭrum Programming, Guitar, Synthesizer – Ludwig Goranssonĭrums, Percussion, Keyboards, Synthesizer – Robin HannibalĮlectric Guitar – Itai Shapira, Yannick Werther
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