Santigold

Santi White is a self-possessed, beautiful, and highly charismatic young woman with a striking sense of style and global sensibilities. Her debut album, Santogold, feels like an unpredictable take on Dub, Punk, New Wave and Electronic music — there’s no mistaking the throbbing, deep dub bass of “Shove It” and “Anne,” or the hefty dose of new wave on top of it. On “Lights Out” she almost sounds like a Cyndi Lauper for the 21st century. Other parts of the record call out to other feminist touchstones of the past, including Sleater Kinney (“You’ll Find A Way”), The Slits (“Say Aha”), and Laurie Anderson (“My Superman”). Indeed, Santogold often feels like the culmination of thirty years of iconoclastic feminine influences pouring forth from the mind of this precocious Bed-Stuy performer.