Law Holt (previously LAW) caused no mean fuss of her own with debut EP Hustle, in 2013, and consequently toured internationally with Young Fathers, whom she both supported and performed alongside. She has two new albums now primed for released this year.
‘It’s a soul voice, but one of those old-fashioned ones that were idiosyncratically expressive and couldn’t help dominating any musical situation – it reminds us more than anyone else of Eartha Kitt, with shades of Grace Jones, although for the record others have compared it to “a drugged-up Nina Simone” and “Laura Mvula rocking your earlobes…. We were going to say Lauren Holt alias Law harks back to the first golden age of R&B – before the genre became synonymous with all things shiny and rhythmically experimental – but she’s more complicated than that. Her singing might be Mk1-era soul, maybe even redolent of pre-soul artists such as Billie Holiday, but the music is some distance from the output of Motown and Stax. It’s quirky, capricious, eclectic. File next to: Eartha Kitt, Regina Spector, V V Brown, Laura Mvula’ (The Guardian)
