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Cat: BWOOD 193LP. Rel: 27 May 19
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz/Nu Soul

Side 1 - Track 1. Gonna Buy A Car Today Side 1 - Track 2. No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish Side 1 - Track 3. Dreaming Is Dead Now Side 1 - Track 4. Spit/Swallow Side 1 - Track 5. Without A Doubtful Shadow Side 2 - Track 1. My Love Is Burning, Down Side 2 - Track 2. Ten Four, Good Friend Side 2 - Track 3. I'll Be On Your Mind Side 2 - Track 4. Laxmi Flying Side 2 - Track 5. Blood Relations

This debut album from Jo'burg via Doncaster's Skinny Pelembe comes with a weight of expectation. The distinctive soul maverick has been turning heads with his output on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings for the past two years, and now he's come good on the promise of those singles and EPs with a wonderful, many-sided LP that oozes personality, depth, and a dusty, hand-wrought musicality that hits on an instinctive level. There are flurries of broken beats, low slung wood-carved percussion, rugged neo soul and weather-beaten funk aplenty, with the lines between organic and electronic beautifully blurred. This album deserves to be huge, positioning Pelembe as a vital new talent in the vanguard of UK soul music.