Review: Emerging from Oxford, UK, Timmy P has found a place over the past decade releasing with all manner of labels like Local Talk and Strictly Rhythm to What NxT and Nervous. He makes a cultured return to Cecille following his Words Fail, Music Speak release, opening with the title track here, "Mylo's Groove", that sees Timmy P skillfully employ a classic filter house vibe, intertwining chopped vocal chants amidst a sturdy drum grooves, gritty stab sequences, and pulsating basslines to infuse an infectious swing. Flip it over and "Vintage B" embraces its name, evoking the golden era of US house. Jazz-infused keys, acid squelches, brass licks, and entrancing vocal elements bumping over a robust 909 drum workout. Muscle car jams.
Review: Given the title, and artwork that pays homage to the 'House Sound of Chicago' comps, you'd be forgiven for expecting this to be an album full of slavish recreations of late 80s acid house - but you'd be wrong. That's not to say there aren't plenty of 808/909 beats and squelchin' 303s contained herein, because there are - in places. But 'Jack-Ish' has far more to offer than simple pastiche, because there are also nods to the rave era (check the vox on 'Monster Munch'), to the speed garage days (Theo Walbeck's opener even biting Jodeci's 'Freak 'N' You', the MK mix of which helped birth the style), to Chicago's Cajual/Relief-led 'second wave' (Cuthead's 'Fuck That Shit') and more. This is a love letter, in other words, not to a brief moment 35 years ago, but to house music more generally in all its wild, wonderful jacking glory. And you need it in your life.
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