lilt

“Oh, my God, I can’t even tell you what I’m feeling,” she says, the lilt of her Australian accent coming through.

On Sapphire - the album's best song - he enlists Indian superstar Arjit Singh for a duet, trading vocals in a mixture of English, Hindi and Punjabi over a lilting beat.

Reflecting his heritage, the music is full of Afrobeat rhythms, log drums, spiritual mantras and lilting guitar lines.

There are several performance scenes that showcase Madekwe’s ability to croon in a convincing limber lilt but little engagement with his actual music.

But the result was thin, devoid of intonation or personality, and it had an American lilt.