Bleep

London vocalist Ego Ella May is a formidable voice in modern R&B, and Honey For Wounds is the crowning achievement of her career so far. Across a wide swathe of sonic textures and moods — from sultry electronic soul to downtempo beat manipulations to lounging jazz — May nimbly blends emotive storytelling with humour, sadness and self-searching adventure. On ‘Girls Don’t Always Sing About Boys’, a record crackle imbues May’s softly looping voice with a world-weary melancholy as she navigates the trials of modern love, climate change and the pressures of society. Anyone longing for a SZA/Erykah Badu amalgam won’t be disappointed.