Raleigh Ritchie - You’re A Man Now, Boy, album review: ‘bold and cutting edge’ | London Evening Standard

Raleigh Ritchie - You’re A Man Now, Boy, album review: ‘bold and cutting edge’Despite being best known as Grey Worm on Game of Thrones, Jacob Anderson's debut is no mere side-project'Pop heart': Raleigh Ritchie, aka Jacob Anderson, sounds bold and cutting edge on his debut

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Best known as the Grey Worm character in Game of Thrones, the former Jacob Anderson runs a parallel musical career.

Raleigh Ritchie - You're A Man Now, Boy

Actors making records is a tricky business, but to his immense credit his debut album doesn’t sound like a thespian’s side project.

Ritchie is bold and cutting edge in a Jack Garratt sort of way and the fabulous The Last Romance is a life-affirming combination of confessional vocals and a massed gospel singalong. And for all the electro clutter of Werld Is Mine, the throaty rasp to his vocals and the smoother soul of the Stormzy-featuring Keep It Simple, he never loses his pop heart.

At worst he’s given himself an option should the acting jobs dry up; at best he’s given himself a whole new career.

(Columbia)