Cynthia Erivo’s I Forgive You album review: Sublime sophistication

Cynthia Erivo in the album artwork for I Forgive You (Image: Press)

On ‘Why (Interlude)’, the opener on Cynthia Erivo’s second studio album, ‘I Forgive You’, an echoey chorus of Cynthias murmur in meditative harmony, as one breaks away to disclose, in remarkably restrained tones: “I may be mad, I may be blind, I may be viciously unkind, but I can still read what you’re thinking…” The music is ethereal, but the words are confronting. It’s thus the perfect prelude to the therapeutic ride to come. The lyrics are also discombobulating because — and it takes a beat for this to register – they’re from Annie Lennox’s masterwork ‘Why’: an ode to heartbreak so overwhelmingly great, the mere thought of it brings this writer to tears. It’s a strikingly bold

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