Moonchild Sanelly - Full Moon

‘Same again’ might appear as a dismissive turn to describe this third album from South African party starter Moonchild Sanelly, but it’s her ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ attitude that allows ‘Full Moon’ to continue on the playfully explicit, brilliantly brazen trajectory. Styles twist and turn, from the unabashed radio pop sound that excites on ‘To Kill A Single Girl (Tequila)’ to surprisingly vulnerable closer ‘I Was The Biggest Curse’ via ‘Sweet & Savage’, which has all the mindbending pace shifts of an early 2000s Xenomania production. Lyrically, meanwhile, she barely misses: opener ‘Scrambled Eggs’ serves up the pitch-perfect reintroduction with “It’s your god given duty / To appreciate my booty”, ‘Boom’ compares the prowess of men in different tax brackets in a way best left to the singer’s own delivery and the spoken-word ‘I Love People’ offers the kind of mathematical bars to give Ed Sheeran a lifetime of envy: “I tell him to subtract my clothes / Divide my legs / He adds himself / Multiplies my wet”.