Players - From The Six Corners (2005)

Tracklist

01. No Big Deal
02. Wonderful
03. It's Not Over Now
04. Little Things
05. Find Your Way
06. All The Good Things
07. Alone
08. Nobody Told Me
09. Isaac's Boogaloo
10. Quinta Del Sordo
11. Liberation



The Players take a cleaner and more modern approach to production than most of their neo-funk contemporaries (The New Mastersounds et al), blending samples and programmed beats with really fine musicianship. Giving the proceedings more than a whiff of that spooky Portishead sound; managing to sound contemporary, but old and dusty at the same time.

Not that the music here ever loses attention to the groove, with a rhythm section currently utilised by Paul Weller and The Who (or what's left of them) you'd expect nothing less. This is an album that looks forwards and backwards, and is all the better for it.

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