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Album Review: Jess Kent - My Name Is Jess Kent

Samantha Jonscher
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"A new artist looking for her own sound to carve out between her two predecessors."

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England-born and Australian-bred Kent channels MIA's swaggering collage of street-level samples and Lily Allen's ska and reggae inflected Britpop.

This debut EP includes her two big singles thus far: 2015's Get Down and the recently released The Sweet Spot. Kent's production has the candid jauntiness of DIY production but none of its lo-fi. Her flow is dextrous and her rhymes, like Allen and MIA, lean on an English accent that she hasn't lost ("we're not posh/We're flying so high like oh my gosh"). Kent is a new artist looking for her own sound to carve out between her two predecessors, but as soon as she does, big things await.