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Eddie C 'On The Shore' (Endless Flight)
On four of the tracks here, it feels like the trip-hop revival is upon us. Not Portishead/Tricky style moody song-based stuff, but trip-hop in the sense of early Mo’ Wax, Ninja Tune or Nightmares On Wax: heavily swung and beautifully edited, with dusty, crackly breakbeats, loads of dub space and cool jazz chords. It’s all done so crisply and lovingly, too, that it somehow manages to sound fresh. The rest of the album is sunny, chilled boogie and deep house that approaches the style of Endless Flight’s parent label Mule Musiq. All that is often exquisitely done, but it’s the downtempo tunes like ‘Low Road Dubs’ and ‘Mistaya’ we keep coming back to, and crave more of.
7/10
