Morgan Munroe [2022] - Mutual [Self Released]

A new artist to these pages who emerged in 2020. Morgan Munroe is from Leicester who inevitably had to move to London ('the centre of the universe'!) to pursue her career aspirations.

Her latest single "Mutual" (4 May 2022) is another tune that uses The Ambassadors "I Really Love You" (1969) intro (included below for those who don't know it) which has been doing the rounds in recent months. Morgan certainly has a good set of pipes and this is right up my street blending the old with the new and a singer who can 'properly' sing. 

Having had a skim through her earlier material this is definitely the best track she's done to date.

Whilst this is marked as explicit, I didn't really notice anything particularly bad, so with that caveat, I'd say that this will do well on the soul charts.

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Details

Rating:	8.7
Explicit:	Y
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	04/05/2022
Key/BPM:	2A/70
Value:	£1

Moonchild [2022] - What You Wanted (Kiefer Remix) [Tru Thoughts]

Hot on the success of their album "Starfruit", Tru Thoughts has released a remix of one of the album tracks by Moonchild "What You Wanted (Kiefer Remix)". Kiefer is a beat-maker, musician from L.A.

It comes paired with the album version and I'll post both side by side for comparison as, to be honest, I struggle to hear the, often only very subtle, difference! 

It's one of those slipped out midweek that can get missed and overlooked as it came out on Tuesday (3 May 2022).

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Details

Rating:	8.2
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Tru Thoughts
Cat No:	None
Date:	03/05/2022
Key/BPM:	11A/96 / 11A/93
Value:	£1.79

Shamiya Battles [2022] - One Way [Self Released]

Shamiya Battles is an independent singer/songwriter from London. She released a debut single "Be Myself" in Feb 2020 followed by "Air" in 2020 and an EP "Be Myself" in  Oct 2020.

She featured her last June with her single "Good News" and has a new single released today (5 May 2022) "One Way"

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 Details

Rating:	7.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	05/05/2022
Key/BPM:	5B/65
Value:	£1

SoulStrutter Summary Apr 2022 Neo Soul

SoulStrutter The Neo Dirty Dozen Mixes for April 2022.

Having already posted a summary for the 'main' Dirty Dozen for April, here's one for the Neo soul releases for the month.

NB There weren't a great deal of good release across the board for week 15 to create two separate 'dozens' so they were all bundled into the main Dirty Dozen playlist for week 15.

Week 17 (25 Apr - 1 May 2022)

Playlist:

Tayah - Momentary High (29 Apr)

Chxrry22 - The Falls (8 Apr)

Adreana - Convenient (29 Apr)

Ann Weberg Feat. Isabel Eberdean - Handle It (22 Apr)

Lenora - homebody (14 Apr)

Melody & The Soulbirds - My body's your instrument (29 Apr)

Kim McCoy  Feat. Max Minelli - Jus Wana Smoke (20 Apr) (NB also rel'd in 2017)

Diplomats Of Soul - Soul Spaces (29 Apr)

Reuben James - Searching (29 Apr)

Adreana - Callin Your Name (29 Apr)

Destardy - Lonely (26 Apr)

Sierra Sellers Feat. WesWill - Sentimental (28 Apr)

Week 16 (18 Apr - 24 Apr 2022)

Playlist:

Kiki - You & I (22 Apr)

Kayland - Control (19 Apr)

Kei - Backseat (22 Apr)

Kayla Amor - Strong Enough (13 Apr)

Reuben James - All I Wanna Do (22 Apr)

Latanya Alberto - Sunrise (21 Apr)

Lizeth Arenas - Shine On (22 Apr)

Sanura & Raheem DeVaughn - Chocolate Love (19 Apr)

Que Derry - What's The Difference (22 Apr)

Xena The Artist - Divine Conversations (23 Apr)

Lizeth Arenas - Mar Adentro (22 Apr)

Laspeaks Volumes - Far Away (22 Apr)

Don Lamont Feat. Miriam Robinson - Lychee (22 Apr)

Biako - What's It Like To Be Him (22 Apr)

Clowette - Muzik Iz Luv (15 Apr)

Brandi Little - Different (20 Apr)

Toy Taha - Suite EFX (22 Apr)

Yaya Bey - alright (22 Apr)

Week 15 (11 Apr - 17 Apr 2022)

None listed separately see Dirty Dozen Week 15

Week 14 (4 Apr - 10 Apr 2022)

Playlist:

Dani - I Believe You (8 Apr)

Velvet Bloom - Chance To Miss You (8 Apr)

Tenelle - Fool In Love (8 Apr)

Sarah MK - MITTOS (6 Apr)

Kaemba - Falling In Love (6 Apr)

Velvet Bloom - Glimmer (8 Apr)

Ezinne Nnorom - Too Late (4 Apr)

Kate Stewart - Numb (8 Apr) 

Deejay Wells - Just Be (7 Apr)

Raelle - Grace (8 Apr)

Rbyn - A Woman's Intuition (7 Apr)

the della kit - baby blue (5 Apr)

Week 13 (28 Mar - 3 Apr 2022)

Playlist:

Just Becca - It's You (1 Apr)

Loie - Hide My Feels (18 Mar)

Ms. Kriss - The Recipe (3 Apr)

Thruth Hurts - Cheated (31 Mar)

Ivy Lo - Outta Town Ivy Lo Radio Mix (1 Apr)

Mychelle Feat. ENNY - Forbidden Fruit (1 Apr)

NicquaB - Desire (1 Apr)

Shan Ako - The Wait (1 Apr)

Novine - Wanna Be Yours (1 Apr)

POSY & Brandon Markell Holmes - Fill My Cup (25 Mar)

Gwen Bunn - 2MANYTHINGS (31 Mar)

Tank & The Bangas - Why Try (31 Mar)

Wallace [2022] - Arcade Queen [Self Released] (Full EP)

Wallace (Gollan) is from Wellington, NZ, but I think she may now be based in Sydney.

She has been on the scene since 2015 and has toured wit Rag 'N' Bone Man, Little Simz, Jordan Rakei and Masego amongst others.

Today (5 May 2022) she released a four track EP "Arcade Queen" which contains her last three singles "Orchid Care" Mar 2022), "Every Stroke" (Dec 2021) and "Venus, The Birth Of" (Oct 2021) plus a new song, the title track, "Arcade Queen" which is a collaboration with Close Counters from Melbourne who have featured a couple of times on the blog last year with their single "In Need Of Love" (Nov 2021) and  "FLUX" EP (Mar 2021).

I think this one fits squarely in the 'future soul' category and is an acquired taste which may have purists running for cover.

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Details

Rating:	7.2
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo / Future Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	05/05/2022
Value:	£2.76

Mya K [2022] - Tipsy [DMY Artists]

London based, Nigerian, Mya K (Mya Emem Kinlock) featured in March with her last single "Favourite" which I described as future soul and her latest single "Tipsy" released today (5 May 2022) would fall into the same category.

The official video premieres tonight at 18:00 BST.

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Details

Rating:	8
Explicit:	Y
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul / Future Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	DMY Artists
Cat No:	None
Date:	05/05/2022
Key/BPM:	9B/65
Value:	£1