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December: 18 albums you need to hear this month

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  • MIxmag Crew
  • 2 December 2016
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Mr G 'A Good Place...?' (Phoenix G)

Colin McBean’s third album in three years finds him in a more playful mood than on his recent offerings, which were produced under a cloud of bereavement. ‘A Good Place...?’ is still characterised by both a love of firmly rooted grooves and only using the barest ingredients to get you going, but this time he colours outsides the lines a little more. Stiff chords rub up against flailing percussion on ‘One For the Heads’ and smeared, expansive chords bring warm rays to ‘In The Sun Finally’, while ‘That Late Night Thought’ is the sort of muggy and effective banger with which G has become synonymous. It’s a case of subtle evolution rather than grand revolution, then, but while the dancefloor is again the main focus, the results are compelling. Kristan J Caryl

7/10

 
 
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