Quantic
Look Around the Corner
Release Date: Apr 2, 2012
Genre(s): R&B, Latin, Pop/Rock, Neo-Soul, Easy Listening, Alternative R&B, Latin Soul
Record label: Tru Thoughts
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Album Review: Look Around the Corner by Quantic
Great, Based on 3 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Formidable in their own right as artists, the eagerly awaited full-length album combining the extensive musical talents of Quantic and Alice Russell Look Around the Corner doesn’t disappoint. Both are signed to Tru Thoughts, based in Brighton, UK, a label that continually delivers quality music for discerning listeners. Look Around the Corner adds to their roster, combining soul, cumbia, Latin jazz and even boogaloo on this beguiling album.
Based on rating 7/10
On paper, it's an amazing idea: get British retro-soul diva Alice Russell into the studio with her compatriot and fellow legend of old-school grooves Quantic, and see what happens. To some degree, the results are delightfully predictable: Quantic is great at putting together vintage funk and Latin musical concepts and recording them in such a way that you have to double-check to make sure the tracks weren't laid down 40 years ago. And at its best, this album draws on classic sounds and arrangements but creates something new and wonderful with them.
Opinion: Excellent
An exceptional collaboration - like manna from heaven for leftfield soul fans. Louis Pattison 2012 For fans of modern leftfield soul, the news that Quantic – aka producer Will Holland – and British singer Alice Russell were collaborating on a new album comes like manna from heaven. The two go back some time – Russell lent her soulful, cosmopolitan voice to some of Holland’s earliest recordings, back in the early 00s – but their careers have blossomed since then.