5. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
SBTRKT (and Sampha) put together quite possibly the best dance album I have heard for a good few years, with a stellar cast of guest vocalists the masked man glides effortlessly through a myriad of future garage, dubstep and house to produce not only a dance floor friendly LP but also one that is pleasantly listenable. Sampha provides vocals on a lot of the tracks with his trademark soulful tones and is joined by a harem of excellent female vocalists in Jessie Ware, Roses Gabor and Yukimi Nagano (Little Dragon). US rapper Drake was equally as impressed with SBTRKT as I was and used the Yukimi Nagano vocalled track Wildfire for a remix.
The live show is also well worth seeing, with a tour on the horizon next year. I was fortunate enough to see them on the banks of the lake at Melt! Festival with a couple of thousand incredibly nice German people, the Drake remix of Wildfire was met with great joy! My only critique of the live show was that it failed to include my favourite track from the album Pharaohs.
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