Laura Mvula: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Listen to Laura Mvula s terrific fulllength debut, Sing to the Moon, and you ll hear soulful pop music in Technicolor. The U. K. singer s sonic ambition is boundless: Her intricately layered songs straddle genres, locations and eras in ways that sound entirely original. Squeezing that sound behind Bob Boilen s desk is no tiny task, as she acknowledges partway through this threesong set in the NPR Music offices. Mvula faces the challenge by seizing an opportunity to showcase her most intimate materia