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CMU Approved
Approved: Kelela
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 2 October 2013
Starting off part-time as a hire-a-vocalist for Teengirl Fantasy and Daedelus, LA-based Kelela is now a solo artist heavy with potential.
Released yesterday, her astonishingly poised first swipe at mixtape-making, ‘Cut 4 Me’, finds her at the heart of a briar-patch of basement R&B beats by the likes of Kingdom, Girl Unit, Bok Bok, Jam City, Nguzunguzu and Morri$, all DJs associated with the Night Slugs label and its States-based sister, Fade To Mind.
To a track, all the mix’s ideas are slick and strident, sliding over genre divides in one big wash of static bass and silvery, Solangian R&B. Tap into those things by downloading it for £0 now: