COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS: Blind Bet (2014)
STONE MONKEY
28/05/2014
In just under a month another veteran contemporary funk and soul act places its ‘difficult third LP’ cards on the table and this time it’s
In just under a month another veteran contemporary funk and soul act places its ‘difficult third LP’ cards on the table and this time it’s
[RATING: 5] Sniffing at the heels of the recently unveiled title track comes Aceyalone‘s latest full-length project Leanin’ On Slick. It finds the Freestyle Fellowship
(Full album review HERE) Heads up, Aceyalone’s back next month in fine style with a thirteen track LP, Leanin On Slick which only features Cee-Lo
[rating: .5] More smug and puke-inducing than one of those middle class couples who don’t have the bollocks to admit they’re Tories, this will doubtless
(PRESS RELEASE) Daniel Merriweather’s critically acclaimed and highly anticipated album ‘Love & War’ debuted at No. 2 in the Official UK album chart and has
[rating: 3] I’ll tell you what seems to be impossible – creating a crossover nu-soul hit that keeps both the masses and the heads happy.
(PRESS RELEASE) Impossible is released on 17 August 2009 by Allido/Columbia Records (Love & War) has retro pastiches of grits-and-gravy ‘60s southern funk and the
Ronson and Merriweather cohort Seb Chew lobs together a minimix of the better tracks (and one of the worst) off the Love & War album
[rating: 2.5] The fact that the tag ‘neo-soul’ might conceivably bring shoulder-padded eighties buffoon Luther Vandross to mind seems to have escaped marketing types who
[rating: 1] “You took something perfect and painted it red,” sings Merriweather on this, where ‘painting something red’ is presumably to ruin it beyond redemption.