Maverick Sabre – Lonely Are the Brave (iTunes Version)
Blessed with a distinctive soulful voice which combines a faux-Jamaican accent with the Cockney twang of his Hackney birthplace and the Irish lilt of his County Wexford upbringing, 21-year-old Michael Stafford, aka Maverick Sabre, first came to attention fronting abrasive slabs of dubstep by Chase & Status and Professor Green. However, there’s very little in the way of massive bass wobbles on his debut album, Lonely Are the Brave, which neatly fills the retro-hip-hop soul gap left by Plan B’s recent ventures into other fields. Indeed, the melancholic dissection of “Broken Britain” on understated opener “I Need” could well have been the first chapter of a Strickland Banks follow-up, as could the stripped-back acoustic blues of “Shooting the Stars,” a stinging attack on police brutality, and the doo wop-tinged “No One,...”
Track List:
01. I Need
02. Let Me Go
03. Open My Eyes
04. Memories
05. Cold Game
06. No One
07. These Days
08. Sometimes
09. I Used to Have It All
10. Shooting the Stars
11. I Can Never Be
12. Running Away
13. A Change Is Gonna Come (Acoustic Version)
14. I Don’t See the Sun
15. They Found Him a Gun
16. A Change Is Gonna Come
17. Dust In the Wind
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