There's a reason that Speech Debelle's debut album is called Speech Therapy and that's because she speaks straight from the heart, with complete intimacy, as if only addressing one person. As if she expects the record never to be heard. At the age of 25 her fragile voice can make her sound like a teenager, but she's packed in enough experience to last most people forever. Speech's combination of microscopic detail with Big Picture pronouncement, dryly funny jokes with real soul-searching, is what makes her worldview so compelling. After having put forth everything, now Speech is just waiting to get it back.