“Can't Fight” by Lianne La Havas

"Can't Fight" surfaced in late June 2020, a few weeks ahead of Lianne La Havas' self-titled third album, her first record after a five-year break. She wrote it with Aqualung and Mura Masa and produced it with Aqualung, and it belongs to a record she made in the wake of a break-up: a concept album whose song cycle follows a relationship from its first rush to its collapse, with nature's cycle of blooming, withering and coming back stronger as the guiding image.

The sessions ran through late 2019 in London, Bath and New York, and the album's sound is mostly neo soul with jazz and folk worked into the grain, its influences running from Milton Nascimento and Joni Mitchell to Al Green and Destiny's Child.

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