Miles Bonny – Lumberjack Soul (MPM)
Although this is essentially a collection of previous and new songs, rather than a ‘whole’ album, it does not suffer as a result of that. The first track, which gives its name to the LP, sets things out well, and is probably the best track on the record: telling the story of a country boy wooing a city girl, it is soulful, romantic, danceable and even humorous, all at once. The beats, for us, are pretty magical, and a perfect foundation for Miles’s laid back vocals
Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro – Caliventura EP (Tru Thoughts)
This EP is, essentially, a collection of remixes from what we considered the best LP of 2009, ‘Tradition In Transition’. Will ‘Quantic’ Holland’s band of international musicians managed to fuse many styles of music into a coherent whole on that record, and, here, the additional influences of Cut Chemist, J-Boogie, Jeremy Sole, Daedelus and DJ [...]
VA – Shapes 10:02 (Tru Thoughts)
This is not any label sampler, this is a Tru Thoughts label sampler. By which we mean the two CDs, which have been compiled by Rob Louis, are packed with treats and surprises that take this way beyond a collection of ‘previously released tracks’. Probably the biggest, and loveliest, surprise is the dub version of [...]
