Jamie Lidell - Multiply
A would-be 1960's soul classic re-envisioned with the digital machinery of the 21st century, Multiply's richness derives from the glorious abandon with which Jamie Lidell channels a generation of soul singers. Equal parts Otis Redding, George Clinton, Sam Cook, Prince, and Steve Wonder, it's as if he's been stealing bone marrow and red blood cells for a musculoskeletal replacement and a full transfusion. Whether it be the slinky do-wop of "What's the Use?," the Motown shimmer of "Music Will Not Last," or the New Power Generation funk frenzy of "Newme," Lidell croons and warbles with daredevil aplomb over instrumentation that jiggles and bleeps with digital artifacts, while noise and technology masquerade as a lock-step rhythm section. As the P-Funk Mothership crash-lands into the studio during "The City," you can almost hear that Lidell has slung himself so robustly into the past that he's come around to the future.
Jamie Lidell
Warp Records [2005]
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