My Lovely Enemy- Grace McLean (Pop) We welcome Grace McLean to this week’s roster of new music with her latest track “My Lovely Enemy”, which comes complete with a superbly produced music video. This track is a genre bending one, giving us elements of smoky jazz club, swing, funk and pop, and is not afraid to dip in and out of some strangeness with complex and interesting choices in chord structure. It’s Grace’s silky and emotive voice that gives us our jazz club feel—she is certainly a classically trained vocalist, we’d put money on it. The track itself centers Grace entirely, putting the success of the record fully on her capable shoulders. A Fiona Apple-esque delivery (think “When The Pawn” era) overlays a restrained, tense patter of a production, growing over the course of the song to become quite the splashy number. We don’t hear much like this one—”My Lovely Enemy” is something special.
Best Lyric: “These lips have touched so many things.“