DANIELLE PONDER Vinyl & CDs

Review: Danielle Ponder made a massive impact with her debut album Some Of Us Are Brave, released on taste making label Future Classic in 2022. Her star has been in ascendance ever since, and with good reason. Her strain of soul strikes a sweet note between dusty classics and slick modernism, so you get torch songs like 'Someone Like You' alongside head-nodding funk jams like 'The Only Way Out'. There's a fresh swerve to the production, and Ponder's voice captures depth and curiosity in equal measure, making for a record which lives up to the label's mantra of tomorrow's all-time essential albums.