Wow! The Naarm / Melbourne massive are taking over the world and now spearheaded by Close Counters, they are coming to form a 'Lovers Dance Academy' near you soon.
We've recently had Rami Imam's 'Safara EP' (Interview HERE and review HERE), Nick Marks, Ziggy Zeitgeist of ZFEE (see review HERE) and the Pro-Teens (new album HERE) and they are all incredibly active and excellent, but are they signed up to the 'Love Dance Acamdemy'.
Clearly the administrators know all about their past students as they have called up Allysha Joy ('Waiting All Night'), Lyric Jones ('Feeling Takes Over Me'), Shiv ('Freedom We're Needing'), Tiana Khasi ('On The Move') and Jace XL ('Constant Love').
Joy, she of First Word, Gondwana Records and the 30/70 Collective (see review HERE) puts in her hight level on soulful vocal and one of the more opened jazzy bruk tracks whilst the other tracks have this deep jazz-funk groove updated for dancey crowd; 'Constant Love' being a prime example, possibly the one that'll get on the radio; can you say 'nipples' on the radio these days?) and if you hear it there first, all these tracks are this good too!
And if you love the original jazz-funk-soul-house, Finn Rees and Allan McConnell, the joint heads of Close Counters, know their stuff and there's quite a Dexter Wansel/Herbie Hancock disco/funk/Philadelphia (Ed. don't mention the Eagles) underliing to some great tracks, 'CloseTo Me', 'Dusk' and the brilliant opener, 'Waterfall'.
You'll recall Finn's solo album on Mr Bongo (see review HERE), 30/70 and his appearance on Alexander Flood's 'Can’t Get Enough' (see review HERE) who has found in Allan a close working relationship. Indeed, Close Counters are busy touring and have a wide collection of fans Gilles Peterson, Folamour, Jamz Supernova, Jague (BBC Radio 1) and Complexion (BBC 1Xtra) so you'll be hearing a lot from these guys this year.
BUY LINK: Pre-Order / Pre-Save: https://bfan.link/lovers-dance-academy
Artist: Close Counters
Title: Lovers Dance Academy
Release date: 12th February, 2025
Label : Close Counters
Catalog Number : CC026
Format: Limited LP vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp
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