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3 days ago | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
Of course, there will be comparisons to Jungle’s discography, it would be remiss not to, but what Lloyd and Kitto have created really does sing to its own tune. Where Jungle are the dance floor fillers, Loaded Honey is the slow dance at the end of the night that makes you realise what it’s all about.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
MAYHEM isn’t bad though, and I want to stress that fact before I get into it. Lady Gaga has always delivered excellence in whatever music she puts her mind to, from jazz to bubblegum pop, from Americana to Broadway. This top standard and the high bar she’s set for herself is what listeners now hold her to, and MAYHEM, while solid, lacks its very name by nature.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
With the third Kaytranada record TIMELESS only a few months old, producer Louis Celestin has a new arsenal of material to work with, and a whole lot of people desperate to take it all in as he gives the album its UK live debut. Whereas 2019's BUBBA had the hits, TIMELESS brings consistency. The record is more cohesive, playing out strongly from start to finish.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
The music scene itself typically struggles to break the larger realms of the UK and US for example, but neighbouring countries as far as France tend to pick up on their outputs. The country’s Latin influences are reflected in the majority of their festivals across the Latin, hip-hop and rap genres, with the popular Beach Please pulling in the likes of Anitta, Travis Scott, Ice Spice, and 6ix9ine.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
Beatenberg, one of Cape Town’s prized music exports, changed hemispheres and migrated to London after the pandemic. Matthew Field, Robin Brink, and Ross Dorkin haven’t been dormant since then though, with an amuse bouche of an EP in 2022 and Field’s own solo project M Field releasing two EPs – each collaborating with his Beatenberg bandmates in the wings of the production.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
Ariana Grande’s seventh studio album details the emotional turmoil underneath the calm composure she’s worn with pride since her 2020 record Positions. With recent drama about her divorce and new situation with Wicked co-star Ethan Slater, it’s hard to be in the pop culture mill and not have an opinion. However, with Eternal Sunshine, Grande invites you into her head for an insider peek, while simultaneously stating that your opinion isn’t needed or wanted.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
Since 2020’s Quarantine Casanova EP celebrating all things lockdown, Chromeo’s Dave 1 and P-Thugg have put out Bend The Rules with Anomalie, and CLUSTERFUNK with Ric Wilson and Dave 1’s brother A-Trak. While these have been solid collaboration efforts, they’ve been missing the tongue-in-cheek stylings of a Chromeo solo album like 2014’s White Women and 2018’s Head over Heels.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
Coming up to two years after the release of their second studio album AFTER DINNER WE TALK DREAMS, MICHELLE have humbly offered up GLOW; a six-track EP that incorporates a selection of new elements but remains firmly in their familiar wheelhouse. In fact, if the EP was released with the B-side bonus tracks on AFTER DINNER WE TALK DREAMS: THE SIDE DISHES, it would’ve make perfect sense – perhaps even more sense than the abstract “SEA SHANTY” that we got in 2022.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
“I actually had to Google it the other day,” she says as she tells me her age, “and by Google I mean I used a calculator. Like, I don’t know, I could’ve been 26 or I could be 28 – and it turns out I’m 27!” There’s a unique humour to all that Lamb says, and what could be said as a simple matter-of-fact statement often comes past her lips as a memorable moment that makes you chuckle to yourself each time you recall it.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
thelineofbestfit.com | David Cobbald
Is it time? Is it consistency? Is it willingness to change, or being steadfast in your sound? Or is it nothing to do with the music at all – is it simply the package it comes in? When it comes to Jungle, the lines are blurred. Ten years since their self-titled debut album, we’ve been taken on a journey consisting of three more records (For Ever, Loving In Stereo, and this month’s Volcano) and one two-track single (2022’S GOOD TIMES / PROBLEMZ).
