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Dance, No One's Watching

Ezra Collective

Dance, No One's Watching

Third album from the five-piece London jazz collective is the follow up to their Mercury Prize-winning 2022 album Where I'm Meant to Be

ADM rating[?]

8.2

Label
Partisan
UK Release date
27/09/2024
US Release date
27/09/2024
  1. 10.0 |   Record Collector

    It's a hard-hitting statement album that raises the bar the band set with their previous offering to an insanely higher level. The grooves seem deeper, the horns punchier and the hooks catchier. Print edition only

  2. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    The 2023 Mercury Prize winners’ third album is an ode to the ability of music to unite, and make us dance like we just don’t care
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  3. 9.0 |   Far Out

    It might be something of a cliché, but this is truly a fresh musical experience, rather than being just another jazz record
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  4. 8.0 |   Dork

    Every one of the nineteen songs on this monster LP is an unmissable paragraph in this latest Ezra Collective chapter. Ezra Collective continue to grow, to evolve, and to shine brighter than ever before
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  5. 8.0 |   NME

    Their third album – and first since winning a Mercury Prize – retains the foundations of what their success has been built on: freedom and community spirit
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  6. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Channelling the emotion of joy in a deep way does seem to tapping into the zeitgeist
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  7. 8.0 |   Clash

    A joyful reminder of music’s ability to bring people together, to move us, and to make us dance
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  8. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Moonchild Sanelly guest on “Streets Is Calling”, woozy dub soundscapes accompany “The Traveller”, Afrobeat and Afro-Cuban rhythms collide on “Shaking Body”, and the sense of jazz as a hybrid, liberating form is unselfconsciously embraced. Print edition only

  9. 8.0 |   The Independent

    The jazz outfit have long singled themselves out with their glorious, flagrant disregard of genre
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  10. 8.0 |   The Observer

    The Mercury-winning quintet bring high energy to Afrobeat, Latin and soulful grooves – yet it is in the quieter moments that a fresh musicality emerges
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