“I did all the classic things”, sings Olivia Dean on “Nice to-to-to-l’an”, the main single of his second album, The art of love. And this certainly seems in this way-the star of the growing British neo-Soul has studied the writing of songs to the prestigious British school in London, obtained her first concert as a support singer for the group dancing group at the top of the rudimentary graphic, and, throughout the 2020s, made its way on the traditional scale of the United Kingdom in Stardom. She quotes Amy Winehouse and Carole King in interviews and covered the supremes and Nat King Cole. I will therefore respectfully disagree with Dean’s follow -up claim, that “all the classic things … it never works”. Arrive at the top of its fame to date, The art of love is a real collection of potential classic pop songs, all variations on the holder theme. He moves with the timeless grace of certain ages and indeterminate music and celebrities, which perhaps never existed to start.
Before recording The art of loveDean had immersed himself – as many of his generation have done and many others will surely be – in the bell hooks All about love. “” I have to throw painting “, that’s what Bell would say,” she sings on the brief prelude of the album. More specifically, Dean was inspired by an exhibition of the same name of the artist Mickalene Thomas, herself an answer to the influential work of the theory of hooks. While Thomas’ paintings are developed and encrusted with rhinestones, The art of love is filled with small wonders of the economy. The dean and executive producer Zach Nahome takes a set of spare bongos in an open microphone Laurel Canyon, a Rhodes Brill Brill organ organ bah-bah-bahS Gracious Motown Girls Groups. In their tedious arrangements, small details that could otherwise go unnoticed – a five notes piano pattern on “Nice to each other” or the passage of double horns which follow the first chorus of “without talking about the one you love” – in place, become focal points.
