Ibeyi

This is a curious and promising album from twin sisters working under the long shadow of their father Anga Díaz. Díaz was a pillar of the Buena Vista Social Club in its golden era and left an enduring mark on the girls who were aged 11 when he died. After his death, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi learned the cajón he had yielded with rare dexterity as well as immersing themselves in the Yoruba traditions that had nourished his Cuban music. ‘Where have you gone my father,’ they ask in ‘Behind the Curtain’, one of 13 songs largely haunted by both Díaz's early demise in 2006 and the death of the twins’ older sister Yanira seven years later.

But there is also the mother, French-Venezuelan singer Maya Dagnino: ‘The mama says there is no life without him. She has no one to stop her tears. A man who heals and calms down her fears,’ they sing in ‘Mama Says’, another tune drenched in the electronic-tinged ‘negro spirituals,’ which characterises the style the duo have chosen in this maiden album. The Paris-based mother dominated the sisters’ music approach and she continues to manage their precocious career. But the duo have also been influenced by the independent British label XL director Richard Russell, who encouraged them to sing and play each instrument in this intense eponymous album. The result falters at times into easy listening pop, but listeners will be shaken by the power of the duo's vocal range and their effortless ability to marry English and Yoruba lyrics to disturbing effect.