Album reviews: Lump, Prince, Melojann

Two acclaimed singer/songwriters and a long-buried album by a late R&B legend are reviewed this week

Even from beyond the grave, Prince is a funk/soul force to be reckoned with

SINGER-SONGWRITER

Lump

Animal (Partisan/Chrysalis)

Take two songwriters/musicians from relatively different disciplines who admire each other’s music and take a why-ever-not approach to their work and you have Lump. Laura Marling (one of the UK’s most high-achieving singer-songwriters) and Mike Lindsay (of the experimental folk group Tunng) released their collaborative self-titled debut album three years ago. They return for more of the same: semi-improvisational tracks with lyrics prompted by Marling’s studies for a Master’s in Psychoanalytic ...