Audiopile Review: Greentea Peng finally gets to her second LP after a four-year wait off her splashy debut, Man Made, the outta nowhere underground hit that made us instant fans of her deliriously trippy take on R&B and crossover hip-hop. The London-based artist’s arrival coincided with a wave of other hometown acts who play a similar genre tic-tac-toe, sharing a kinship with Sault, Cleo Sol, Little Simz and John Glacier. And like her other British cohorts, Greentea Peng’s sound couldn’t have come from anywhere else. Her thick accent is the instantly identifiable tip-off, but the place that Greentea Peng has arrived at is also the end result of years of the pioneering, genre-establishing subcultures that have streamed endlessly from the UK. Nodding to Portishead on the torch lit trip-hop of “Green”, taking on skittering street soul with “Stones Throw”, evoking Morcheeba-esque stoned downtempo on “Glory”, and arriving at the breakbeat-fuelled dancehall-lite of “The End (Peace)”, Greentea Peng stands as an incredible summation of the past 40 years of UK music. You can literally hear the past streaming through her, pointing the way forward.

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Tell Dem It’s Sunny is an introspective album, that explores elements of London artist Greentea Peng’s personality and lived experiences in a record that seamlessly weaves together an array of genres from Hip-Hop to Jazz, Neo-soul, Trip Hop, Ragga, Rock, Dub and Drum & Bass, all anchored by her signature sage vocals.