Album review: K7 DJ-Kicks, John Talabot / Breach
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K7's venerable DJ-Kicks series — which sees its 20th year (and 50th installment) in 2014 — has been in a resolutely housey mode of late, and the two mellow-leaning volumes dropped late last year were no exceptions.
John Talabot | C / Breach | B-
K7’s venerable DJ-Kicks series — which sees its 20th year (and 50th installment) in 2014 — has been in a resolutely housey mode of late, and the two mellow-leaning volumes dropped late last year were no exceptions. Both offer streamlined thumpers, synth reveries and soulful vocal cuts, but where Barcelona’s John Talabot packs 27 cuts into a strangely tepid mix, Breach’s livelier effort covers more ground in half as many tracks.
