Kendra Morris – If You Didn't Go
This one has been out for a minute, but I’ve been returning to it again and again over the last couple months. Kendra Morris is the latest signee to the burgeoning Wax Poetics label and with her soul style she’s a welcome addition. There’s no way to get around comparisons to Amy Winehouse (she even looks a bit like Amy from the Back To Black cover in the way she sits) or Adele, but Morris has potential to move beyond those comparisons and chart her own territory. On the tracks where her voice is most distinctive, such as “Old Photos” or the track above, “If You Didn’t Go,” she really shines and perhaps gives us a glimpse of what is yet to come.