London singer-songwriter with an above average voice, to put it extremely mildly, is the subject of today’s blog. Nao takes centre stage with the stand-out single from her sophomore studio project, Curiosity.
Having worked with the likes of previously featured 6LACK and Nile Rodgers & Chic, she is a truly unique vocalist, blending jazz elements from her days in education with her personal penchant for soul and RnB. Her days of Soundcloud uploading led to her boldly rejecting label advances to establish Little Tokyo, her own label. On Little Tokyo, she dropped her first EP, So Good EP, and if we fast forward to 2018, she has garnered critical acclaim for her debut album, For All We Know, and there is huge delirium for her second project.
Drive And Disconnect was a huge single, followed closely by Curiosity. Both were exquisite depictions of Nao’s extraordinary voice. RnB heavy and more restrained than some of the more prominent songs on the album, Curiosity starts with Nao’s warbling vocals delicately dancing around the subject of intimacy and passion. It is a raw, unfiltered love song that has lustful passion burning through it’s very fabric. This is balanced perfectly with production from GRADES and LOXE, the former of which collaborated with Nao on her previous smash hit, Bad Blood. Twinkling pianos blend into an upbeat cacophony of synths that breathe life into the sexual intimacy that Nao paints with her vocal chords.
One of my favourite singers of recent times, Nao astounds me every time I hear her voice on a new record. For someone like myself, who can’t sing for toffee, her talents blow me away and surround me in a blissful cocoon of harmonies. There are certainly worse places to be.
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