Lost & Found Jorja Smith

• 1Lost & Found05:14
• 2Teenage Fantasy03:46
• 3Where Did I Go?03:11
• 4February 3rd04:02
• 5On Your Own04:01
• 6The One03:17
• 7Wandering Romance04:35
• 8Blue Lights04:10
• 9Lifeboats (Freestyle)02:52
• 10Goodbyes03:50
• 11Tomorrow03:52
• 12Don't Watch Me Cry03:10
• Total Runtime46:00

Info for Lost & Found

The highly-anticipated debut album Lost and Found. Lost and Found is the rich fruit of Jorja’s past two years of work and an artistic statement. On her debut offering, Smith’s play-fully infectious pop spirit intertwines with her youthful charisma, idiosyncratic storytelling, and informed opinions – attributes that have set her apart from her peers and seen her become one of the UK’s most-loved female-breakthrough stars of recent years. A sonic masterclass, Lost and Found spans a number of personal, and observational yet relatable topics that only Jorja Smith could unite so compellingly.

"Within two-and-a-half years of uploading "Blue Lights," Jorja Smith crashed the Top 40 in her native U.K., recorded with and opened for Drake, racked up a bunch of Top Ten U.K. indie singles, appeared on the Black Panther soundtrack, and won the Brit Critics' Choice Award. She also received additional acknowledgments via the MOBO Awards and BBC Music Sound of 2017. These and other developments and accolades increased anticipation for Smith's debut album. With one-third of the independently released Lost & Found previously issued, its arrival is somewhat anticlimactic on first contact, but the known and new material coalesce into an assured and complete debut. Had Smith arrived in the post-new jack swing '90s, her work would have been classified as hip-hop soul, what with the streetwise, wise-beyond-her-years perspective, captivatingly raw emotional content -- with an aching, slightly coarse voice to match -- and favoring of breakbeats and mellow, slightly rugged grooves. Standout "Blue Lights" inevitably reappears with its mournful rumination about the terror of racial (racist) profiling. Other than that cut and "Lifeboats (Freestyle)," on which Smith raps metaphorically about inequality and turning a blind eye to those in need, Lost & Found focuses on romantic pitfalls and impasses. In multiple instances -- the opening title track and following "Teenage Fantasy," two highlights -- she frets about lovers who don't want what she wants, and otherwise regrets wasted time, miscommunication, and dead ends, only rarely looking back with a low degree of fondness. A powerful tool for repairing a broken heart and indicative of an even brighter future, Lost & Found is satisfying and promising at once." (Andy Kellman, AMG)

Jorja Smith, vocals

Jorja Smith
Midlands-born singer Jorja Smith was already well known for her addictive blend of pop and modern soul music when she featured on Drake’s record-smashing playlist More Life, but their track “Get It Together” certainly hasn’t harmed her ascent into the ranks of music royalty.

Unafraid to be overtly political, she first blew up with her debut “Blue Lights”, a 2016 track about police brutality that sampled Dizzee Rascal’s “Sirens”. Drake, who describes Smith’s music as “introspective soul”, isn’t her only fan – the teen has collaborated with the likes of Maverick Sabre, Cadenza and Dre Island.

Smith, who’s known that she wanted to be a singer since the age of eight, has a strong pedigree – her dad is a singer with a neo-soul outfit called Second Nature. “I sang “Silent Night” (during a nativity play), which was the first time my dad heard me sing. He told me he knew from then I had something special,” she told Dazed. When she was 15 or 16 her future manager was sent a video of her singing and came up to meet Smith and her father. “I just kept writing and sending them stuff, and obviously they liked my hustle!”

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