Who's for a real classy slice of soul funk that sounds like it's been shot straight out of the early 90s? Well that's what you get with Jill Scott's latest single So In Love, the first from her new album The Light of the Sun.
The track is already a big hit in America and it's not hard to see why - Scott's voice is so natural, so beautifully attuned to everything going on around it that you feel yourself slipping into a kind of almost-hypnosis. Anthony Hamilton also features on the track, his own vocals serving as the perfect counter-part to Scott's.
With duets there's always the danger one singer will dominate or show up the other, but the two seem in absolute harmony here - two peas in a pod, so to speak.
With enervating lyrics of 'I feel like a breath of fresh air' riding high high on an irresistibly groovy beat, the record feels so empowered, so on the money in every sense. Some records try to be cool, some try to redefine what cool is, but there are those rare gems that beyond all reason and logic just are the very definition of what 'cool' is.
There's a suitably satisfying crispness to the percussion too, the piano chords floating on the breeze like angel wings; all underscored ever so delicately with dreamy synthetic strings.
Going on holiday somewhere hot this summer? So In Love is what you'll want playing as you lie back on some sun-kissed tropical beach.
So In Love is released on the 27th June.
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