![]() ![]() What to buy: The Poster Girl EP is released on 29 July by Night Beach.įile next to: SZA, Jhené Aiko, Kid A, Cassie. ![]() The truth: Meet our new favourite R&B ghost-poetess. ![]() The buzz: "The best new thing to happen in R&B." On her 20th birthday, she was in London rubbing shoulders with Britain’s elite at Dolce and Gabbana fashion shows and hitting up the town with her best. Born in Oakland, California, Iconika (born Elijah Finister). How's she going to appear – as a hologram? Iconika, the artist formally known as Phlo Finister is an American R&B singer-songwriter. She makes her live debut on 31 July at London's Sebright Arms. We'd call it tantalising, but that suggests this music could be fleshed out, improved upon, when really it's perfect as it is. Last Winter is a classic of dejected electronica where love is a subset of a broader feeling of estrangement. Phlo Finister may have a way to go before she proves herself musically, but she’s got the aesthetic down and seems to be plugged in to the right scene and with the right people. "Baby, just take a sip," she invites, sounding like an enervated Rihanna or a Beyoncé minus the sense of entitlement. By track two, Coca Cola Classic, we're hooked. The beats are heavy, the voice/production combo heady: we're sure we read her describe what she does on one website as "sex, drugs and dubstep". On Hotel Miami, a lead track from her forthcoming Poster Girl EP (spoiler alert: she didn't quit the biz after all), she offers to play a hooker just for one night in her lover's luxury suite – so consumed is she not by desire, but by a desperation not to be alone, even if the man in question isn't to be trusted. Background edit Born in Oakland, California, Iconika (born Elijah Finister) is the daughter of a half- Portuguese, half-black mother and raised in her hometown of Oakland up until the age of five, when she moved to Los Angeles. But more than anything we like to think of her as a breakaway character from an Abel Tesfaye song who gets her own show. Iconika, the artist formally known as Phlo Finister (born July 16, 1992) is an American R&B singer-songwriter. She has recorded a cover of Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang over Mobb Deep's Shook Ones Pt 2, a useful précis of her project. It's her work on a series of mixtapes with Andrew Dawson (the Weeknd Kanye West Tyler, the Creator), 4AD's A$AP Rocky collaborator Spaceghostpurrp, and Def Jam's Benny Cassette that defines her. "The sacrifice of being a star," she declared, "isn't worth my normalcy." Rather, she was leaving the music business to pursue other interests (photography and design), discouraged by the trends to "mimic. It wasn't that she was committing suicide – although you could have been forgiving for assuming as much from the letter. She nearly absented herself and disappeared from view last December when, in an "open letter" to her fans, she wrote that her "long road" was "coming to an end". This idea of Finister – the woman with the spectral coo – as little more than a ghost isn't just fancy. But Finister is effecting some kind of apotheosis with her exquisite blown beats, ethereal production, and a series of evanescent whispers that only vaguely fall under the rubric "singing": it's not full-bodied but empty, drained less a voice than a void. Cassie, of course, was moving in this direction a few years ago. In her hands, it stands for "ravished and blue". ![]() Next Thursday’s hearing in Gravesend is expected to be opened and adjourn for a full inquest later.The background: Like SZA, Jhené Aiko and Kid A, Phlo Finister is remaking R&B, divesting it of its aerobic thrust and projected passion. Sir Bob Geldof’s daughter and her musician husband Tom Cohen had lived at Wrotham, near Gravesend, Kent, for less than a year with sons Astala, two, and Phaedra, one. Police described her death as “non-suspicious” but “unexplained”. Mum-of-two Peaches, 25, was found dead at her country home 19 days ago. It is likely they will be read out at the opening of the inquest on Thursday. But the results of tests on blood and tissue samples have now been sent to coroner Roger Hatch. Meanwhile a coroner could next week reveal what caused Peaches Geldof’s death.Ī postmortem on the TV presenter had proved inconclusive. Heartbroken Phlo had earlier posted a message saying "the London dream is dead." In the heartfelt and incredibly personal tribute, Phlo said she and Peaches "shared bodies" and that she "loved with my soul." The R&B artist, a close friend of the tragic 25-year-old, said in the post that she was waiting for the day to be reunited with her friend in heaven. Peaches Geldof's pal Phlo Finister has posted a moving Twitter message to her 'one true love' in the afterlife. ![]()
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