Nao review – back to the funky future

Village Underground, London
The latest digital R&B singer draws on the genre’s past and her own rich talent to rise above the packFuturistic R&B is becoming something of a hegemonic sound, not to mention an overcrowded marketplace. Once reserved for arty margin dwellers such as Kelela and the recherche FKA twigs, this highly processed variant of mainstream R&B has become the defining innovation of this decade, with ranks of young women signing up to coo ecstasies over glacial m