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Knockin Boots

Julio Bashmore

Knockin Boots

Debut album from the Bristol producer and DJ Matt Walker

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Broadwalk
UK Release date
07/08/2015
US Release date
14/08/2015
  1. 10.0 |   Time Out

    This isn’t music for dance nerds, this is house music as Frankie Knuckles meant it to be: dicey disco samples, hissing hi-hats, thumping kicks and soulful, poppy lyrics
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  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Track after track showing woozy, hazy appreciation for house’s glow
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    Colourful and unconventional throughout, ‘Knockin’ Boots’ keeps Julio Bashmore’s reputation for bangers firmly intact
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  4. 8.0 |   The Observer

    This diverse, engaging and immensely likable collection plays at least as well on headphones as on the dancefloor
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  5. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Knockin’ Boots underlines the simple joy of uplifting dance music
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  6. 8.0 |   Crack

    Pure joy throughout
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  7. 8.0 |   Q

    A house album that strips out the weaknesses while putting boosters under the strengths. Print edition only

  8. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Shuttles between classic disco, '80s electro soul, Gallic House tropes and stripped-down future funk with significant aplomb. Print edition only

  9. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    Now that house has conquered the world, it's feels right that a younger generation is bringing back the sounds of its earliest days for a victory lap
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  10. 6.8 |   Resident Advisor

    Finding common ground between his dual sensibilities with only a few rough patches along the way
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  11. 5.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    An album clearly made by a mercurial talent, but who still sounds at his best quietly knocking out unassuming dancefloor gold
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  12. 5.0 |   Clash

    He'll surely produce some great work in the future but if 'Knockin' Boots' shows us one thing, it's that there's a clear difference between an album and a collection of a dozen songs
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