Black Lives Matter: Music for the Movement
The systemic racism and institutional violence inflicted against the Black community is rightly the focus of protests across the world. Music has the power to heal, to inspire, to challenge, […]
Sy Smith – ‘Sometimes A Rose Will Grow In Concrete’ (Review)
Released in 2018, Sy Smith‘s jazzy-textured Sometimes A Rose Will Grow In Concrete was a seminal project. From the frivolous, flirtatious ‘Perspective’ and ‘Now and Later’, to the hard-hitting ‘We […]
Danielle Ponder – ‘Poor Man’s Pain’ (Review)
A native of Rochester, New York, Danielle Ponder worked as an attorney for five years in a previous life. She was motivated to join the profession after her brother was […]
Lockdown Round-Up 2!
The music keeps coming! Here’s another round-up of Lockdown releases! – Eunice Keitan – ‘Come Home’ Canadian singer-songwriter Eunice Keitan is cool, measured, but determined on latest single ‘Come Home’. […]
Lockdown Round-Up!
While our live music reviews are taking a back seat here at The House That Soul Built, we are being inundated with lots of great new music. Read a Lockdown […]
Lenkie – ‘Trouble’ (Review)
We first came across seventeen year-old Lenkie a couple of months ago when we were sent her debut single ‘Waterfall‘, an aching folk-soul tune about unrequited love. This South African […]
Yebba – ‘Distance’ (Review)
Yebba’s upcoming debut album is surely one of the most hotly anticipated releases in the neo-soul and R&B space. In 2016, her raw, emotional performance of original song ‘My Mind’ […]
Nyah Grace – ‘Sooner or Later’ (Review)
Emerging singer-songwriter Nyah Grace is one to watch. With only a few releases to date, she communicates an artistic refinement and polish that smacks of future potential. Growing up in […]
Ella Rammelt – ‘Comfort Zone’ (Review)
Here’s some poppy neo-soul by the way of Sweden! Ella Rammelt was exposed to show business as an early age, competing to represent Sweden in the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song […]
Haley Reinhart – ‘Piece of My Heart’ (Review)
Haley Reinhart finished in 3rd place on the 10th season of American Idol, impressing viewers and voters with her sexy, gravelly vocals and Mama-Cass-meets-Stevie-Nicks sensibility. Since her run on Idol, […]
Leslie Odom Jr. – ‘Go Crazy’ (Review)
Since his Tony Award-winning turn in Lin Manuel Miranda’s rap/hip-hop musical Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr has focused his efforts on his recording career. In 2016, he signed a four-album deal […]
rum.gold – ‘Save You’ (Review)
rum.gold is an emergent R&B/soul artist hailing from Brooklyn, New York. Initially uploading songs anonymously to Soundcloud, rum.gold (adapted from his surname ‘Drumgold’) released his debut EP yaRn last year. In […]
Brother Zulu – ‘Lights’ (Review)
‘Future soul’ collective Brother Zulu grabbed our attention with their debut release ‘Honey’, a rich soulful lament that made its way into The House That Soul Built’s ‘Best Songs of […]
Sister Cookie – ‘On Golgotha’ (Review)
‘And your angels, they’ve renounced you / And your angels are no more / And they’ve left you for the city / And the city is their whore’ Rarely is […]