Katy B Understands Your Problem

Easy Please Me is about a specific kind of romantic frustration—the person who gives you just enough to stay interested but never enough to call it anything real. Katy B delivers the complaint with such south London ease that the frustration reads less like anger and more like clear-eyed resignation. The UK funky production is clean and spacious, all that room in the low end, her voice sitting in it with absolute confidence. That whole south London sound was cresting in 2011, and she was the clearest voice in it—not performing desperation, just stating it plainly. You know exactly what she means. That’s the whole thing.