Drawing on Jazz, Soul, and Pop, Poppy Ajudah’s debut is a forceful personal reckoning with a variety of social and cultural points of conflict that manages to remain hooky and affecting throughout. ‘The Power In Us’ featuring a range of textures from the high gain guitar on ‘PLAYGOD’, where Ajudah tackles the US abortion debate, to the slick R&B beat on ‘MOTHERS SISTERS GIRLFRIENDS’ where she asks “Is this who I’m supposed to be?” as she tackles the expectations of womanhood. Album highlight, ‘London’s Burning’, tackles Brexit, immigration, and generational conflict in the UK as Ajudah’s spectral vocals hang like smoke over a clattering beat as she intones “London’s burning to the ground”. Affecting and to the point, it encapsulates her sound and her cause.