“There are things you can say in a song that you would be too embarrassed to say in conversation,” Labi Siffre told a BBC interviewer in 1972. “In a song you can say it and it sounds correct. It’s a cowardly way of saying things one would never say.” Delightfully unpretentious,...
[1. Labi Siffre’s highest charting hit was 1987’s “(Something Inside) So Strong” but I have absolutely no recollection of this song growing up but I did know “It Must Be Love.”] To be sure, those are both stellar songs but to reduce Siffre’s ’70s catalog down to these pair...