Marcel Winatschek

The Bass Needed Someone to Ride It

Katy B arriving on a track called Louder feels almost inevitable in retrospect. The South London scene in 2010 was stacking dubstep low-end under everything that moved, and she was the voice that could sit on top of all that weight without fighting it—clean, certain, not reaching for anything. The production shakes the room. She just rides it like it was always hers.