Blog: Muruch

Nikka Costa is back and as exciting as ever. The big-voiced red-head who burst onto the scene with her funky pop-rock debut Everybody Got Their Something and successfully covered the great Nina Simone on her last album Can'tneverdidnothin' now brings us something a little different than perhaps we've come to expect from the spitfire songstress. Newly signed to Stax Records, Costa dipped back into a classic soul sound for Pebble to a Pearl . But while some of the arrangements are softer than Nikka's previous works, she hasn't lost any of [...]