See It Thru: Camille Munn’s Sleek Eighties Soul

Camille Munn sings like someone who grew up with the good records on in the house and decided, eventually, to make her own version of them. Her sound is sleek, eighties-touched soul: clean lines, warm synths, a voice that sits right on top of the groove instead of fighting it. This is not a throwback act. It is a London singer writing the music she wants to hear, and the eighties touch sounds like hers, not borrowed.

The record that makes the case is “Get Down,” her new single on the Brighter Days Family imprint. The eighties touch is all over the production, but the song is built like a pop record that knows exactly where the chorus lives. First listen hooks you. Second listen, you are already singing along.

The Brighter Days EP is the proof that this is not a one-single story. It is excellent from front to back: soul singing over production that understands space, songs that give the voice room to do the work. No filler, no showing off, just a singer who knows what her voice is for.

“See It Thru” and “Luv Song” are the standouts, and they land the same way the single does: direct, uncluttered, confident in the melody. What she is building, track by track, is a catalogue with a clear centre.

She is London-based, on a small family-run imprint, making the kind of soul music that used to need a major label and now just needs the songs. Antidote listens for exactly this: an artist whose records keep getting played by the people who play records for a living, while the rest of the world is still catching up. Camille Munn is already there. The songs are the proof.