Listen Culture

Laura Mvula: Phenomenal Woman

Singer-songwriter Laura Mvula has had a lot of emotional hills to climb these past few years. The success of her strange, inventive debut LP Sing to the Moon—which lost the 2013 Mercury Prize to James Blake’s Overgrown—manifested with panic attacks, a formal diagnosis of clinical depression and a divorce with her husband, whom she met as a student at Birmingham Conservatoire. Her second album Dreaming Room, out this June, reflects much of her journey—describing both the sorrow of loss and the ferocious rebuilding of spirit. Tracks like “Overcome” and her latest, “Phenomenal Woman,” reflect the latter.

COOL HUNTING always gets permission to use the images we publish; however, as an independent publication, we cannot afford to continue fighting unfair claims of copyright infringement, so the images have been removed from this post.

Related

More stories like this one.

ninemoonspiercing-holidaypopupevent-
Read Design

BVLA’s Body of Work

Thirty years in, Body Vision Los Angeles has turned utilitarian piercing hardware into fine jewelry—and pulled more than one lapsed devotee back to the studio chair