Tom Noble - House Of Spirits (2024)

Super Elevation label owner (and noted crate diggin' DJ) Tom Noble spent the best part of a decade working on House of Spirits, his debut album. Crafted in various studios at different points over the last ten years, it presents a retro-futurist collection of dancefloor soul and disco workouts rich in live instrumentation and vocals. It's nostalgic, but also timeless, with Noble offering nods to the likes of Patrick Adams and the Mizzell Brothers, as well as various aspects of Black American dance music from the 70s and 80s. The results are predictably potent, with highlights including driving future anthem 'Love Trip', the disco-funk joy of 'Please Take Me There', low-slung and slo-mo Dreamcastmoe collaboration 'Diamond Eyes' and the deeper delight that is 'Moving Away'.