It's the turn of our new music specialist to weed out the week's best new bands, including Royce Wood Junior, Nightbox and Kagoule
Joel Compass, Sampha, Dornik, Kyan, Kwabs the leftfield Brit-R&B genre is hardly under-subscribed, and the signs are that the work across the Atlantic of the Weeknd, Drake, Frank Ocean and Miguel have had a revitalising effect on homegrown soul. Even Shift K3ys top-three hit Touch has experimental, um, touches. But theres room for one more: step into this crowded market Royce Wood Junior, a London-based producer and songwriter who has worked with Jamie Woon and Kwabs. His new EP, Tonight Matthew, is bravely titled as it does veer perilously close to an impression of Prince (via Jamie Lidell), but there are more forward-looking moments where 70s/80s soul and funk are put through a Dilla/Flying Lotus discombobulator.
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by Paul Lester via Electronic music | The Guardian
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