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Chris Willman
Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic
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JOSEPH WASILEWSKI How many phenomenal young British female singers can one world withstand? It’s hard to imagine a more enjoyable onslaught than the wave that has brought us Olivia Dean, Raye and Sienna Spiro, among other standouts — and, of course, Lola Young, who may count as the edgiest of this commercially and artistically compelling crop. She got a little too close to the edge, last year, and had to take a time-out that interrupted her tour and put other promotional activities on pause. Now she is in resumption mode, with a live show that would have been worth waiting years, not just six months, to see. Her show Monday night at L.A.’s Orpheum was enough of a wow to make you wish we could turn the clock back on the Grammy race for best new artist — not to overturn the verdict, because Dean is great, too, but to somehow maneuver the results into, like… a tie? Young at least merits a piece of that same glory, and with the fierce determination she’s bringing to her performance right now, it seems like a surety she’s going to get it.
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