A sophomore project that marries messages from the pulpit and dance-floor rhythms, Indlela is a simultaneously groove-filled and prayerful stock-take of Nobuhle’s ongoing path. While faithfully foregrounding her cultural background across the offering, the singer layers ethereal vocals over instrumentation traversing Afropop, electro, and Afro-house. Soulful musings on love and spirituality radiate through the resultant array of ethereal synths, warm strums, rhythmic percussion, and soothing keys, with deftly imbued Zulu intonations. These eclectic sounds couch balmy melodies of romance (“Imini”), remembrances of home (“Emakhaya”), and heartfelt invocations (“Jerusalema” and “uSonini”), while the spiritual amapiano of “Malo We” best encapsulates the ethos of Indlela as Nobuhle’s rousing vocals accompany a Kabza De Small-directed nod towards the dance floor.