Taste Test: Tyra Jutai is ‘Still Good’
The lilting songbird leaves an indelible mark with her debut song.
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Her voice wanders the darkest alleyways and most derelict of abandoned haunts. She mines classic noir-filtered jazz, sauntering through the poppier roots of Nancy Sinatra, Amy Winehouse and Duffy – markedly obvious influences but whose presence drives her own work further into ’40s cinema. “Still Good” is Tyra Jutai‘s debut single, and you’d never know it. It’s a razor-sharp, warbling performance with a string-born intensity, percussion clicking along at a brisk pace right at her heels. Jutai embellishes her melodies with a fine cherry tang, but it’s never too much to flood the taste buds. “Head in my hands, hating God / Hating men,” she barks in her way. Despite her proclivity for unquenchably sinful ways, she attests there is a rich goodness that remains very much at her core. “I’m still good…” she lets the words bake before fading into mist – and you’ll lose yourself, too. Just give it time.
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