Album review: Tru Thoughts 10th Anniversary (Tru Thoughts)
Oct 28th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Big Shot Magazine, Music Reviews
A 44-track triple-disc celebration provides an overview of ten years of Tru Thoughts’ premium funk, soul, jazz, broken beat, and hip-hop.
Chances are, disc one’s tender slowies from Bonobo and Nostalgia77 will make you feel underdressed, their smoky finesse open to magic and mystery. Soon giving way to club interventions from Milez Benjiman and Flevans, Tru Thoughts show they’re a label that can’t sit still for long. The collection opens up as a nurturing place for divas: hear the sass brought by Alice Russell, Lizzy Parks, Kinny and Kylie Auldist. Latin smiles beginning to enter, the Hot 8 Brass Band go as far as taking Snoop Dogg to Mardi Gras. Saravah Soul, The Bamboos and Lanu keep shoes shuffling: there’s always good humor, whether the funk be retro, new school, jazz-slicked, or prefixed with a P. Stonephace and Azaxx. Add a third disc of exclusives offering the compilation’s most concentrated session of sobriety, before the party starts again in more expansive style to ensure the next ten years are in great hands. Matt Oliver
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