Blog: The Blue Walrus

There's no question of the fact that in less talented hands, this album would be an overwrought mess. Plenty of Lianne La Havas's [ Twitter ] contemporaries have similarly powerful voices (and hers is one of the most soulful and passionate I've heard in quite some time, certainly in this genre of music), but most of them would surely spoil the broth with too many cooks. La Havas, on the other hand, knows just the right ingredients to use, and the result is a sumptuous album. She doesn't have the time for syrupy ballads (indeed, the token ballad that is often [...]