Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart (2017)
Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart (2017)
Electronic | 39:26 min | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 238 MB
Label: Ninja Tune
Electronic | 39:26 min | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 238 MB
Label: Ninja Tune
Superb debut album by one of the UK’s more distinctive new pop voices and producers. After cutting her teeth with idiosyncratic releases on No Pain In Pop and Kassem Mosse’s Ominira, Throwing Shade adopts her birth name, Nabihah Iqbal for a more personalised set of songs, adapting influence from ’80s goth, Egyptian mythology, and Teutonic psychedelia to realise a striking, unexpected sound, especially when judged against her early work.
Weighing Of The Heart finds Nabihah firming up and expanding upon her identity as a female British Asian artist in a way that doesn’t play into cliché or expectations. There’s no discernible sonic correlation between her heritage and the music, but that’s most likely symptomatic of her London environment more than anything else. Immersed in the great NTS radio station and busy with myriad art and film projects, her sound is better considered in terms of a sense of pop-wise unity and appeal, as part of a greater sum than herself.
Her vocals alternately lend themselves to comparison as much with The Streets as Teresa Winter, whilst the gated ‘80s snares are a common hinge between stripes of synth-pop, rare groove and proto house, essentially forming a mesh of dream-pop that neatly and knowingly exists within and outside of its temporal context. From our perspective, it sounds like a very London album, and maybe that’s the point; that London is a world or identity unto itself, inextricable from her own.
Tracklist:
01. Nabihah Iqbal - Eden Piece
02. Nabihah Iqbal - Something More
03. Nabihah Iqbal - Saw U Twice
04. Nabihah Iqbal - In Visions
05. Nabihah Iqbal - Alone Together
06. Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 to 6000
07. Nabihah Iqbal - Feels So Right
08. Nabihah Iqbal - New New Eyes
09. Nabihah Iqbal - Slowly
10. Nabihah Iqbal - Eternal Passion
11. Nabihah Iqbal - Untitled Friday
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