​You can her it in the voice almost instantly: a clarity of tone, deeply soulful and a clipped, almost angry delivery. The voice belongs to Tyson McVey, one half of PANES alongside producer Shaun Savage (part of Hackney’s Flesh & Bone collective, who have handled production duties and provided recording space for the likes of Depeche Mode, Crystal Fighters and Arthur Beatrice), and it contains many echoes of her mother’s voice. Her mother? Why, that’s Neneh Cherry - the person responsible for one of 2014’s best albums so far in the form of Blank Project. So yeah, Tyson already had a lot to live up to (her father, Cameron McVey isn’t exactly short of a talent or two either) even before her mum ended 18 years of silence with that beauty of a record. It’s a good job, then, that PANES’ self-titled EP is pretty darn great.

PANES arrived on the scene late last year with the slinky R&B of “Choice Errors”; it was a fine calling card: McVey’s breathy, slightly throaty vocals with a real undercurrent of power (think Martina Topley-Bird plus Aaliyah) were matched by Savage’s smart beats. Agitated cymbals fight against hip-hop beats before some Asian strings drop in on the chorus, elevating it above your standard 21st century R&B blueprint. McVey’s lyrics also recall her mother’s way with words in the way she creates a pretty prosaic domestic scene, an average night out and the need to feel wanted, but in the most attractive way possible. Rather than rest on the laurels garnered by “Choice Errors”, the rest of the EP lives up to that promise.

“Bones Without You” is constructed out of basic handclaps and shimmering xylophone tones, the beats never overcrowding a stunning and soulful vocal from McVey which is filled with deep longing (“I’m just bones without you”) and despite the age-old subject matter it’s always nothing less than captivating. “Dust Becomes” shares similarities with BANKS’ sparse and husky music, as it works its sultry magic across four aching minutes, while the final track of the four, “Stills”, picks up the pace with Savage allowing synths to buzz and the percussion to skitter here and there but remain just in the background holding up a bruised but confident vocal performance from McVey.

It might only be four tracks, but PANES is a real statement of intent from McVey and Savage. There’s a hell of a lot of R&B and electronic music similar to this out there but this duo seem to have just that little bit extra which sets them apart from their peers: it’s Tyson McVey and her voice. Like mother, like daughter, huh?