British singer Cleo Sol has released her fifth album, Gentlewoman, and the Spanish magazine Rockdelux dedicated an extensive review to it. The record's opening line is "Finally I'm thinking about myself" — and the reviewer admits that for a second it gave him a flicker of hope. Rockdelux ↗
The context, however, is complicated. Cleo Sol has long worked with her husband, producer Dean Josiah Cover, known as Inflo — together they are behind the project Sault and a series of albums that were often released without promotion or interviews. Rockdelux writes about a period when disputes piled up around the couple and prolific output gave way to silence. Rockdelux ↗
According to the review, Gentlewoman is ultimately another statement in the spirit of "us against the world," but this time without intermediaries: "Finally I'm thinking about myself" means she doesn't need Inflo to speak for her — and that the two of them essentially think the same thing. The idea of placing love above everything else runs through the album from beginning to end: "I believe in the truth you fight for," she sings on the title track. Rockdelux ↗
Cleopatra Zvezdana Nikolic, as her legal name goes, is among the most distinctive voices of contemporary British soul. On SuperMusic you can find the lyrics to three of her songs.
Cleo Sol released her debut, Rose in the Dark, in 2020, and has since been recording at a pace unusual for today's scene — five albums in six years, mostly without singles or a promotional machine behind them.
Cleo Sol speaks for herself on the album Gentlewoman. Without Inflo, but with the same message
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