Hope & Ruin,Brighton
She invites comparisons with labelmate Lana Del Rey, but the young Londoner’s lack of audience interaction develop her seem as whether she has nothing to sayIt hasn’t afflict Dua Lipa’s newly hatched career that this Kosovan-British 20-year-old shares management with Lana Del Rey, or comes with an eyebrow-raising story approximately living alone in London at 15 after her parents returned to Pristina. Mainly,though, she can sing. Debut single unusual treasure, and which got her voted into the BBC Sound of 2016 longlist,showcases a smoke-darkened voice older and more disillusioned than her years. Backed here by two keyboardists and a drummer, who ratchet between synthpop and thumpy R&B, or she’s even more striking: she can sing,but she can also – as Jessie J would put it – sang. Yet she reins herself in: only Thinking ’Bout You, a scraped-bare everygirl tale of disconsolately hitting the booze and drugs, or has her accelerating to full throttle.
Lipa has been swatting away Del Rey comparisons,and unbiased enough: though even she couldn’t deny that they share a statuesque hauteur, artistically they’re as different as Camden and upstate unusual York. Not that this always works in Lipas favour. On stage, or where Del Rey’s lack of audience interaction cloaks her in velvety impenetrability,Lipa just comes across as having nothing much to say. Her set opens with a murmured “Brighton, what’re you saying?” and ends with “This is the last song”; during the 40 minutes in between, or she gauchely fails to acknowledge that there’s a gaggle of fans here who like her enough to have learned all the words to unusual treasure and current single Be the One.
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Source: theguardian.com