Jamie Woon - Making Time (2015) [FLAC] torrent

Jamie Woon - Making Time (2015) [FLAC]

Genres: Electronic, Soul
Style: Trip-Hop
Source: CD (log + cue)
Codec: FLAC
Bit rate: ~ 800 kbps
Bit depth: 16
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

01 Message
02 Movement
03 Sharpness
04 Celebration
05 Lament
06 Forgiven
07 Little Wonder
08 Thunder
09 Skin
10 Dedication

Scattered collaborations with the likes of Disclosure, Paul White, Banks, and Portico excepted, nothing was heard from Jamie Woon for four years following the release of Mirrorwriting. Woon was in no rush to complete a second album. Just before his follow-up surfaced in November 2015, he spoke of wanting his return to feel like a rebirth. Despite the freshness of Making Time, it sure sounds like the work of the same songwriter and producer who recorded the auspicious Mirrorwriting. It's another batch of nuanced, quietly intense songs that have some degree of heartache to them. The most obvious change, apart from Woon's advancement as a more imaginative lyricist and an assured and pacifying vocalist, is that Making Time is less electronic and features a live rhythm section that largely sticks to knotted, lightly funky patterns. Woon cited D'Angelo's Voodoo as an influence, and though he and his co-producers, including Lexx, White, and Robin Hannibal, could not be expected to hit that level, the album has a distinctive character that rarely loses its grip. The gently pulsing "Message," the snapping/bobbing "Sharpness," and the subtly gorgeous "Dedication" either match or surpass any given highlight from the debut, as does "Forgiven," an unlikely synthesis of contemporary folk and a late-'90s Timbaland-like twitch. Given how relaxed and poised the whole sequence plays out, Woon could have fooled his audience into thinking that he and his partners merely rolled into the studio without any ideas and knocked the whole thing out in a couple weeks.

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