Sooner or Later

With understated, semi-acoustic instrumentation, ‘Sooner or Later’ is a mellow, summery helping of neo-soul. The calming, slightly throwback groove even conceals a romantic urgency to the lyric: ‘I don’t know what the hell you’ve been waiting for / I can see the look in your eyes.’ Nyah’s voice flakes beautifully as she reaches for the high notes. Her vocal sits in the breathy and whispery school – a growing complaint of some ’90s R&B nuts wistful for the range and pyrotechnics of, say, Brian McKnight, Maxwell, or En Vogue.