Maverick Sabre: 'Let Me Go'

Maverick Sabre may sound like the name of a bloodthirsty cage fighter, but it's actually the stage guise of fast-rising rapper Michael Stafford. For those not yet familiar with his moniker, you might recognise his inimitable London-Irish twang on Professor Green's 'Jungle', or failing that, a show-stopping performance earlier this year on Jools Holland that won over just about every music critic going.

Listening to 'Let Me Go', his first UK single proper, it's easy to see why. Anchored by a dazzling horn section, it's a sophisticated pop number with a female-assisted chorus that grabs you like a double underhook from the off. "I can still taste you on my lips, your tenderness/ You always gave me something," he confesses over twinkly, piano-led verses that sample Portishead's 'Glory Box' - the result a musical mash-up so head-spinning we had to ask him to define it for us. "Soulful hip-hop acoustic-inspired music" was the neatest response he could come up with.

Watch Maverick Sabre's 'Let Me Go' video below: