The Vinyl Countdown # 1975

 Leila Adu, Dark Joan (2009)

I listen to Leila Adu because she’s great. And one of the main reasons she’s great – and therefore worth listening to – is because her songs are surprising. In fact her songs are surprises. You can’t predict the next line. So you get odd but brilliant phrases that stick out, "still got me teeth and my nine pairs of shoes". S…