SMOOVE & TURRELL: Antique Soul – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Hammond – I Can’t Give You Up – Beggarman – Don’t Go
SOUNDBITE: “Yeah, yeah, feel the crunch, get to the beggarman’s disco”
RATING: 4/5
Take a couple of blokes who could pass for those two Geordie builders who drink in your local, put them together in a studio and what do you get? If the two in question are Smoove and Turrell the answer isn’t a new stud wall and the faint whiff of battered Mars bars but Antique Soul. In other words a heavyweight northern soul-influenced collaboration with the gritty credibility that other nu-soul pairing Mark Ronson and Daniel Merriweather just can’t seem to muster and more crossover power than Moses at the Red Sea. Because when this is on, it’s really on.
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