MPHO featured on ‘Don’t Bring Flowers’

MPHO, who appeared at this weekend’s Love Music Hate Racism day during Hungary’s Sziget festival over the weekend, keeps surprising critics and making new fans with her recently released debut single “Box N Locks.”

The song, whose cleverly crafted video keeps popping up on a vast array of blogs, makes use of a Martha and the Muffins sample from the classic “Echo Beach,” and is quickly on its way to becoming one of the trademark songs of the summer.

Now there is a new song from the South African-born London-based song making the rounds online. MPHO contributes her voice to a mix of Erik Hassel’s single “Don’t Bring Flowers,” currently available for free download from sites like Popjustice. MPHO’s presence on the track certainly gives it some pizzazz, and the download comes highly recommended from a number of sites.

The music blog FizzyPop!! writes: “Talking of Popjustice, they are on an absolute roll this week. Case for the prosecution – exhibit A: an absolutely free download of Erik Hassel’s ‘Don’t Bring Flowers’ – with MPHO!!! Yes, the MPHO all the reliable music blogs like Dan UK, XO and Phil are talking about. It’s ever so magnif as a duet.”
With this new song, her debut single, and an amazing cover of Kate Bush’s “Running up that Hill” all circulating the net, MPHO looks to be one of this year’s biggest breakthrough acts.

At this point in her career, MPHO says she is taking every day as it comes, though fame is obviously catching up to her.

“I do keep wondering what people are looking at,” the singer tells the Herald. “I think do they think they recognize me or have I just got something massive in my teeth? Earlier today I was in Tesco and a man asked me if I was a singer. Then it happened again in the street. It was a bit weird.”