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Now comes the long awaited debut album In Praise of Shadows via Blue Flowers. In Praise of Shadows is a delirious dreamland of soulful vocals, D_Angelo-ish guitars and muted electronic beats. Its fourteen tracks are a contemplation on _the balance of light and dark, the painful things you have to heal from or accept, that bring you through to a better place_ says the 25-year-old Puma Blue, real name Jacob Allen _It_s about finding light in darkness – and realising that it_s what got me here today._
The album astonishing in its openness, from bittersweet reflections on past relationships – _I never learnt to cherish her_ Jacob laments on Cherish (furs) – to pure love-laden soliloquies such as Already Falling or Sheets, one of the albums most personal moments, which borrows a sample from the score of Michel Gondry_s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and repurposes it as a lilting love-song that Allen describes as _like a really personal note that you_d leave in the house to be found when you_ve got to head out early._ Nowhere is that openness more apparent though than on lead single Velvet Leaves. Propelled by a crisp hip-hop beat and culminating in reverb-drenched wails reminiscent of one of Allen_s biggest influences, Jeff Buckley, the track explores an incident that still leaves him near panic attacks today.
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