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10.0
139091
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
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9.0
139411
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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9.0
139001
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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8.0
139002
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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8.0
139005
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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8.0
139017
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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8.0
139031
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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8.0
139090
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
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8.0
138999
8.0 |
The Independent
The jazz outfit have long singled themselves out with their glorious, flagrant disregard of genre
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8.0
139133
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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