Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy

Speech Debelle - Speech TherapyTheres a reason that Speech Debelles debut album is called 'Speech Therapy' and thats because she speaks straight from the heart, with complete intimacy, as if only addressing one person. As if she expects the record never to be heard. Perhaps in some way, thats not an unreasonable assumption. The 26 year old South Londoner has been through the mill both before and since she started working on this set of recordings. The oldest song on here is called

’ Elan’s reappearance on ‘Make Up Your Mind’ is a fathoms-deep piece of reggae soul that sticks in the mind

The album artwork is by long-time collaborator Suki and is a representation of the many invisible layers of our inner and outer worlds

accompanied with a music video by Mike Weir

and Madelyn Grant

female wail of a hook (while comedy rapper number 6 mutters ‘uh huh

JME and Frisco (the Boy Better Know legends turning up on '10 Man Roll')

there’d have been no better time to do so than now

through to the beautifully heady expressions of their last album

captures this emotional rollercoaster with a fusion of soul

Time Lapse of Build

On the exquisitely bittersweet ‘Word To The Wise’

Speaking about the new single and EP