Track Reviews // Shura – Religion (you can put your hands on me)
2 nd Single from upcoming album Forevher ( Secretly Canadian, 16 th August 2019) Londoner Shura has announced her 1 st album with Secretly Canadian with the Prince -kissed disco and sacrilegious shuffle of Religion (you can put your hands on me) which curves and corners in all the right places. The interplay of scorching guitar licks and icy synths, two stepping in and out of the limelight in turn, recalls the shimmery naughties; when the 1000 mile stare of latent Britpop in the indie eyes of Foals, Friendly Fires et al was pulled by glances of Curtis Mayfield and Bobby Womack . Like that serendipitous cross-pollination, which still rattles the floors of indie nights up and down the UK, Shura blends her cultivated awkwardness with the kind of joyful abandonment only hairbrush microphones routinely experience up close. Her voice goes from mellow yearning to falsetto breathiness – simultaneously at one with the noise and entirely devoted to the listener’s ears, like