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A sense of musical wisdom, innate discipline and expansive creativity pervades the street-smart electro-soul from Ellen Beth Abdi, as the renowned, prolific collaborator turned towering solo virtuoso announces her self-titled debut album. Popping with synth signatures, swelling with slow-burning background energies and flowing with delicately placed words of potent and personal meaning, the digital single "Sad Chord" give you a taste of what to expect from the LP from Manchester’s very worst kept multi-instrumental, genre-hopping secret.

Counting back almost a decade since her prodigious talents were first discovered and her solo touring and numerous support slots kick-started a journey around national and international venues, all of Abdi’s live experience, including sharing stages with Lady Blackbird, Courtney Pine and Angelique Kidjo, will be poured into dates arranged in celebration of the long-anticipated release of Ellen Beth Abdi.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Silky smooth street soul rich with shimmering arpeggios and throbbing bass, meticulously crafted passages of minimalist electronics and Abdi's athletic, rhythmic vocals. A brilliantly cohesive, musically inventive debut from an artist we'll be hearing lots more of in the future.

TRACK LISTING

1. Who This World Is Made For
2. Thickskinpeel
3. Tenterhooks
4. Elsewhere
5. The Bad Dream
6. Sad Chord
7. Spellbound
8. Problem Child
9. Kingsway Bouquet
10. Sweet Twenty-Three