Jamie Woon: Making Time – Album Review

Making Time
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Artist: Jamie Woon
Genre: Rock
Label: Polydor

This London soulboy's debut Mirrorwriting was much admired on its 2011 release for Woon's soulful, spacey voice and talent for classic song arrangements.

Here, with Bjork and Wild Beats’ accomplice Alex Dromgoole providing a different touch as producer, there’s more warmth and heart on display compared with the more abstract, experimental wash of before.

While the musical palette makes more use of jazz and psychedelic echoes and whispers, Woon's voice is the main act, especially on evocative tracks like Message and Lament.

A track like Sharpness nods to Woon's previous run-in with the dubstep cartel, though Little Wonder's bright pop splashes indicate that he's happy to move into other zones.

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Despite those occasions when Woon and co are guilty of colouring in the wallpaper, Making Time's soul is more than fit for purpose.

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