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Bored pop fanatics could do worse than look to Stevie Neale for salvation as she lays down an enticing debut full of unforgettable hooks and an ice cool spin on classic garage production. After playing this summer's Introducing Stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Cornish singer and self-taught producer quickly picked up momentum with support from influential online blogs and key early radio. Dangerous has seen Radio 1 support from Zane Lowe 'Future Music', Annie Mac, Rob Da Bank, not to mention multiple plays from avid fan Toddla T who interviewed Stevie for his Friday night show. Blog coverage includes rave reviews from, Fader, Noisey, Vice, 405, and Notion who premiered Stevie's mixtape. Couple that with a feature on Morgan Zarate's Hyperdub release EP (on a track called Broken Heart Collector), and you've got a flying start from one of the most exciting newcomers in UK pop. - Record Of The Day
Bored pop fanatics could do worse than look to Stevie Neale for salvation as she lays down an enticing debut full of unforgettable hooks and an ice cool spin on classic garage production. After playing this summer's Introducing Stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Cornish singer and self-taught producer quickly picked up momentum with support from influential online blogs and key early radio. Dangerous has seen Radio 1 support from Zane Lowe 'Future Music', Annie Mac, Rob Da Bank, not to mention multiple plays from avid fan Toddla T who interviewed Stevie for his Friday night show. Blog coverage includes rave reviews from, Fader, Noisey, Vice, 405, and Notion who premiered Stevie's mixtape. Couple that with a feature on Morgan Zarate's Hyperdub release EP (on a track called Broken Heart Collector), and you've got a flying start from one of the most exciting newcomers in UK pop. - Record Of The Day
Dropping down from her powerful belted vocals, Stevie Neale takes a moment towards the end of her debut single to quietly reflect. “Love is blind,” she realises, “but I’ve still got a bit of sight.” Any perspective chancers’ hopes dashed, ‘Dangerous’ is a bubbling future classic; an ice cool mix of soulful house piano and Stevie’s DIY beats that should set her up for almost guaranteed stardom in 2013. - The Fly Magazine
On the back of widespread lauding from the likes of VICE, The Fader and many more, we’re delighted to bring you the premiere of Dramas Vol. I: a new mixtape from UK RnB/garage producer and vocalist Stevie Neale.
The mix – which you can stream below – scans like a whirlwind ride through Neale’s influences, past and present. Opening on the rattling, electronic hi-hats and descending synths of Azealia Banks’ ‘Liquorice’ – the closing track from her 1991 EP – Dramas goes on to take in an eclectic selection of cuts, ranging from the smooth, liquid RnB of Ashanti’s ‘Things You Made Me Do’ to the futuristic, smokey post-dubstep of ‘NY is Killing Me’ – taken from Jamie xx’s Gil Scott-Heron remix album We’re New Here.
Proceedings are drawn to a close – in rather appropriate fashion – with the twinkling lounge pianos, churning cellos and melancholic farewells of the main theme to the 1983 Japanese WWII flick Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. Rounding out the mix nicely, it fits perfectly with the moments of lovelorn, urban soul that are interspersed throughout Dramas. It’s a suite of songs that illuminates Neale’s deft hand for arrangement; one that showcases the old school vibes that inform her current sound and the insider knowledge that’s sure to keep her relevant for years to come. - Notion
Cherry-picking the best parts of 90s garage beats and smoothing it out with melodic piano stabs, Stevie lures you into her world with her sultry R&B infused vocal. By the time she hits that stunning chorus melody in Dangerous you’re completely won over. You’ve already forgotten the last 15 years even happened and you’re lost in 90s nostalgia. - Amazing Radio
Spacek producer and one half of the Shining, Morgan Zarate offers up "Broken Heart Collector," that drops tomorrow as a single release. Zarate teams with upcoming singer-songwriter Stevie Neale for a hook-filled dubstep production and the visual accompaniment by Dogbite is a unique continuous electronic visualization of the track itself. - Hypetrak
Here's another female, heavily garage-influenced track, this time from singer and producer Stevie Neale. On "Dangerous" she waxes lyrical about all the shitty aspects of love, over a punchy piano line, all the while channeling a lot of Amy Winehouse and just a teeeeensy bit of Tina Moore.
It’s pretty impressive for an early effort, but she’s now said to be working with London label Hyperdub, who are basically an underground talent factory, (SRSLY, check out Terror Danjah, Cooly G and Burial for starters.) So let's see how the young buck fares with THAT union. - Vice/Noisey
We just received fresh new UK soul via Stevie Neale, a very talented singer based in London who wrote and produced “Dangerous” entirely by herself. She’s also got a track with Morgan Zarate on Hyperdub coming out in October, and I think you’ll be hearing a lot more from her in the upcoming months. - Dipped In Dollars
Cornish singer and producer Stevie Neale will release her debut single, 'Dangerous' on October 1st. With garage breaks and R&B hooks, it's a song that fuses all the classic elements of pop music the 90s together whilst still making it sound fresh for this century. - The 405
British newcomer Stevie Neale’s magnetic debut, “Dangerous,” is a real track from a time warp, like an unreleased gem of ’90s garage. Produced and sung by the native of Cornwall—a four-hour train ride southwest of London—the song showcases Neale’s great ear and massive voice, which stretches loud and pushes against the confines of her recording equipment, working like a metaphor for the gifted rising artist. “Dangerous” is a white-label single, and Neale will feature on Spacek producer Morgan Zarate’s EP on Hyperdub, out next month.
Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2012/09/11/stream-stevie-neale-dangerous/#ixzz28899MEPL - The Fader
Discography
Debut Single 'Dangerous' out November 5th via Week Of Wonders. Already picked up Radio One plays from Toddla T & Zane Lowe.
http://www.soundcloud.com/stevieneale/dangerous
Feature spot on Morgan Zarate's 'Broken Heart Collector' EP out October 1st via Hyperdub Records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pa4jtxkiQt0
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Bio
Someone once said "Pop will eat itself" and if you were watching X Factor in a gloomy Cornwall pub last year you might have agreed. In the corner of the room a star was being born, but not the one with a crowd huddled around the TV; instead Stevie Neale was fighting for airtime at one of her small town showcases -- a set of gigs destined to be the stuff of music industry legend.
There are two big draws to Stevie that make her a rare pop prospect. Firstly, she produces all of her own songs. Her first self-taught beats came together on way out-of-date computers whilst glancing out of the window at rural Cornwall. The result is a sound that mixes the cutting edge with some well placed bits of the past - Trip Hop meets Future Bass via the classic swing of Garage. As a producer she's earning her stripes and her music is all the more personal for it. Take 'Dangerous", for example, where soulful piano rubs up against a garage beat; imagine if James Blake relocated his music to late 1990s London.
The starring role, though, is Stevie's huge voice; carrying a range and power that leaps out of those precocious electronic beats. She packs a lot of soul into her performances - whether that's a Mary J Blige-esque belt or the acidic putdowns of "Dangerous". Hers is a voice that doesn't come around often and when paired with her exciting homespun beats makes for a heady cocktail.
Stevie's self-produced and cutting-edge electronic/R&B tinged beats might have been made while she was living in the Cornish wilderness but her stunning voice belongs more to the distant city skyscrapers and superstar billboards of her new London home. It's a combination that is already winning her fans in high places - having started out with a feature spot on Morgan Zarate's Hyperdub EP. Meanwhile her own debut single "Dangerous" is already snowballing, having received Radio 1 plays from Toddla T, Annie Mac, Zane Lowe, Rob Da Bank and Huw Stevens as well as a tonne of online support.
The train journey from Cornwall to London is a good four hours. For Stevie Neale the journey has been even longer and challenging. Her voice, huge pop songs and confidence have conquered everything in her way so far, and with much more to come she looks set to continue her exciting journey as far as it goes.
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