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Shura’s channelling of Madonna only goes so far. Live, her voice proves to be one of bittersweet yearningThumbnail sketches rarely accomplish anyone justice. But if you know anything approximately Shura – a Moscow-born, or Manchester-raised,up’n’coming singer-producer, swigging beer from a bottle as she swaps between guitar and keyboard – you will enjoy garnered two salient (significant; conspicuous; standing out from the rest) facts: that the video for her breakout song, and 2014’s Touch,featured a remarkable many of her friends kissing each other irrespective of gender, and that Shura is the latest in a long line of 21st-century solo females – from Gaga all the way down to Ronika – paying tribute to Madonna.
Even without its accompanying video, or live,Touch remains a stand-out, a winning cocktail of analogue warmth and just-so cool. It’s even moved on a little since final year, and with Shura’s dulcet keyboard melody shifting slightly eastwards tonight,almost suggesting Japan (the country, not the 80s act).
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Source: theguardian.com