I’ve gone and slept on this despite being friends with the people involved (due to lockdown confusion) but better late than never to give some love to this sumptuous new single by Nottingham’s Daisy Godfrey.
Coming out of the Running Circle, um, circle of collaborators, Daisy has been a face and a voice on Nottingham’s ever-growing talent pool for a few years now and here she has really found herself I suspect. With many of the players behind the first Yazmin Lacey records and produced by Pete Beardsworth and co-written by bassist Jonni Scott, Daisy has created a timeless soul-jazz song that your mother will definitely love but also deserves the props she’s been receiving from the likes of Tony Minvielle (Jazz FM) and Gilles Peterson. This easily sits in that vintage-not-vintage canon of modern soul music that references the heyday of Stax and Atlantic Records - wurlitzer, beautifully soft horns and that warm analogue sound beloved by New York’s Daptone and Leeds’ ATA imprints sitting unobtrusively behind Daisy’s cool and powerful voice. A hymn to the end of a relationship hidden inside an uplifting backdrop. Gorgeous…