Authentic Nostalgia
More ‘sweet soul’ / ‘sweet summer soul’ indeed, though I don’t know how the band can have a label ‘pioneers’ unless travelling back in time to start all over again; indeed (once more) can't have them eschewing the other label ‘neo’ which I'll arguably attribute as a full compliment. This is old-school and wonderfully so.
That’s me done with any dissent – this is new sweet soul with lead singer Josh Lane’s falsetto in the Stylistic’s frame of things but without the layering of strings and other lush orchestrations: this album production is much less glamourised and content with tight rhythmic thrusts and a female vocal backing that repeats lines and melody with additional wraparounds.
A model track is Weak for Your Love, Lane soaring the heights and that supporting vocal tracking the title line as repeating chorus, a delicate finger-picked lead keeping the mix tight again. Nostalgic / authentic album.
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