Best New Bands » Lianne La Havas https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Album Review: “Blood” by Lianne La Havas https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-blood-lianne-la-havas/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-blood-lianne-la-havas/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:09:29 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=26451 London – With Blood, Lianne La Havas arrives with the weight of expectation and leaves with a sense that her journey is a continuing one; in that respect like most of us, I guess. On the back of a debut record three years ago that became almost a byword for critical acclaim, the expectation that

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