Heartbreak has a tendency to trigger a wide range of complicated and intense emotions. For Ghanaian Afro-fusion singer Messiah4L, that means looking inward on his YOU ATE ME EP, relishing an opportunity to examine the past from a place of acceptance. The project is an altogether bluesy affair, Messiah4L singing with a mixture of tenderness and angst. He turns to vices for comfort on “DEAR KANA” before grappling with lost love by questioning his own role in the decoupling. “Was it hard to love me?” he probes on “HARD TO LOVE”. The tempo takes a slightly upbeat turn on the dancehall-infused “CATFISH”, but his longing persists, even if through celebrating the beauty of his lover. By the end of YOU ATE ME, we understand Messiah4L to be a man wrestling with what he can provide a partner. Here, he may have been swallowed, but he can’t go down easy.