Cooly G: Wait ’Til Night review – stripped down seduction

Merrisa Campbell has been assiduously doing things her own way for more than half a decade. Signed to the UK’s auteur-ish bass label Hyperdub after being spotted distributing her own home-made CDs, she made music as Cooly G across a handful of genres; from UK funky to jungle and styles in between. Her second album sees her largely settled: on a style, bass-driven hip hop; and a lyrical theme, lust. That doesn’t mean Campbell’s music has lost any of its stridency, as Wait ’Til Night follows one urgent act of seduction with another, all stripped down to the bare boning. A random selection of song titles - Your Sex, Wants, So Deep - should give you the idea. Meanwhile, in the background, bass rumbles, beats pulse and chord patterns stab relentlessly. Wait ’Til Night bears comparison with FKA twigs’s debut of this summer, but it’s blunter, more direct, clearer in its aims.