APOLLO BROWN: The Answer (2014)

Detroit producer Apollo Brown provides the second of today’s genre-bridging efforts with The Answer. It’s a lushly orchestrated affair that combines the smooth 70s soul of Curtis or Marvin and with the sort of rolling breakbeat once favoured by one DJ Shadow. Before he went all hyphy, obviously. The track is the first cut released off Brown’s forthcoming LP Thirty Eight which will feature two vocal appearances from Roc Marciano. The marketing angle for this LP incidentally, is all about pushing it as some sort of soundtrack to a movie which doesn’t exist which, in the genres covered by MB, is usually a sign of a great album…