Soia releases her new album, Where Magnolia Grows, via Beat Art Department. This is where her paradise lies, where she can bloom and blossom. Adorned with playful melodies, the LP fuses HipHop, R&B, NuSoul and Jazz over saturated and ample beats...

Where Magnolia Grows is an upbeat multi-genre spanning LP that contains 9 songs (33 min, 18 sec). The album revives her musical roots of the nineties, with songs ranging between sensual soul and expressive contemporary R&B, neatly packed in a shell of electronic synths and keys.

Anyone who lived through the '90s will instantly warm to Where Magnolia Grows. It beautifully captures the essence of that decade, while still managing to sound fresh and relevant to a modern, younger audience.

This is a lovingly crafted album which is wonderfully retro in its production.

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Nick Smithson