Freddie Dickson Shut Us Down

Electronic-inflected folk is all the rage right now (as the popularity of Daughter remixes on Indie Shuffle astutely suggests.) For those of you into the slow-burning kind, I suggest you give London singer-songwriter Freddie Dickson a moment of your time.

Dickson has the kind of voice that could keep you warm at night. With an incredible simmering quality, it begins tentatively enough, soft and slightly lispy in an achingly magnetic way, before boiling and rising into a sultry piercing roar that makes me a little weak at the knees. Paired with an intense percussive accompaniment a la Florence and the Machine, "Shut Us Down" is heart-wrenching, powerful and provocative.