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O.K. so even if BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour got in on the act (really they did) and BBC1’s breakfast telly couch, there’s going to be loads of folks turning onto Speech Debelle and ‘Better Days’ is one of the best off the album Speech Theraphy along with previous singles ‘Go Then, Bye’ and ‘The Key’.

And like ‘The Key’, the instrumental is a cooker of downtempo dreamscape and whilst we hope she’s got time for studio sessions in the future, as she says on ‘Where Do We Go?’, “it ain’t all good I hear, everybody got problems”; but then the acoustic guitar and strings brings sunshine into the darkness and a track that should have made the album as a “jazzy little number over which Speech ranges lyrically from the personal to the global.” This is proof that there’s more in the locker to come.

There’s a download version of ‘Better Days’ featuring grime king Wiley so this girl has made it! Better days indeed.

Speech Debelle - Better Days (Big Dada Recordings) Cat. No: BDCDS149 Release date: 10th August 2009
Tracklisting:
1 Better Days featuring Micachu (Radio Edit) (2:57)
2 Where Do We Go? (3:55)
3 Better Days featuring Micachu (Album Version) (4:02)
4 Better Days (Instrumental) (4:01)

Links:
www.speechdebelle.com
www.myspace.com/speechdebellemusic
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www.bigdada.com