Because there is no finer thing than Psychedelic Soul and this album is that very thing par excellence. Raphael Saadiq's album is a hip-shakin' treat, provin' the groove to take you higher and keep you there but there's more. This is a record dressed in a coat of many colours. There are shades of R&B both old and new, harmonica arriving direct from the Delta Blues and pastoral melotron flutes floating down from the dippy-hippy Laurel Canyon. There's echoes of Motown and the flowing funky moves of James Brown. And the song 'Day Dreams' is from a different place entirely, somewhere between jaunty '50s vocal pop and vaudeville. Above all though this is a great Soul album from a prolifically talented songwriter, performer and multiple-instrumentalist; possibly the best we've seen since Prince. He's made the best album of 2011 so don't wait around any longer, get listening.
No comments:
Post a Comment