Speech Debelle - Better Days featuring Micachu

2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize Winner, Speech Debelle returns with one of the standout cuts from her hugely acclaimed debut album, 'Speech Therapy'. Featuring a chorus from another debut artist making waves this year, Micachu, 'Better Days' (released 27th July 2009 on Big Dada) is a harder hitting, more beat-led piece of hip hop than some of her earlier releases, but loses none of their emotional charge.

Produced by Plutonic Lab during Speechs stay in Australia, Ms Debelle returned to Blighty without a chorus in place. After various ideas for singers were mooted she settled on Micachu, who could add a distinctive and distinctly British soul to proceedings. The result is blazing swinging, snapping drums contrasted with deep double bass and acoustic guitar, Speechs clever, incisive, real lyrics and the unexpected twists of Micachus melancholy chorus. As NME has already put it, its a slow-burning slice of pop thats both unsettlingly gloomy and joyously uplifitng.

The single also features bonus track, Where Do We Go? a jazzy little number over which Speech ranges lyrically from the personal to the global.

With Speech Therapy already being tipped as one of the albums of the year, Better Days is a reminder just why so many people are getting so excited about this young South Londoner.

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[dale9bx]

id be a fan of this, really feeling micachu

[robismadeup]

I'm madeup that all you idiots who expect bands like the Klaxons or La Roux to win this award will be gutted. Well dine Speech i say

[xXALECTRO11Xx]

awsome glad i found this by just typing better day

[netty0011]

Micachu looks like a little boy sulking because his mum won't let him play on his xbox.......(I know it's a girl but it still looks like a stroppy little teenager with a face on!)

[Manovmilk]

@robismadeup La roux isn't a band and if you knew anything you would realise comparing hip-hop and what the klaxons do is stupid. And yes I do think the best album of the year should win the mercury award, call me old fashioned. They gave it to the rank outsider to seem edgy.

[peteone6669]

this girl is off the hook.

[thebeetleboy7]

Micachu is a girl! woahh!

[Pappocicc]

bella roba

[fruitsofnews]

in...fan...tile?

[falljaun]

très bon son cette Speech Debelle, cool vibes, typique à l'anglaise, je kiffe

Baliziers

[cooperiscool9]

The beat is so smooth on this track. Plutonic Lab is a great producer. Bit of aussie hip hop always goes well. Speech has some good flow too, and her rhymes have meaning