The DNA of urban music was fundamentally reconfigured on August 25th 1998: the day The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was unleashed upon an unsuspecting planet. It laid down a marker, scorched a line in the earth, started, in its own humble, unprepossessing way, a revolution. Hill, though, has never been textbook and her revisiting of Miseducation is a cause of genuine surprise and delight – though both responses are understandably tempered by caution. Hill, no less a boundary-breaker in her own way, was by contrast all but dragged to the stocks. Come November we will find out whether it, and Hill, are still capable of shining a light.

Source: The Irish Times May 23, 2018 13:52 UTC