Black Focus

Yussef Dayes and Henry Wu locked into something on this record that neither of them has fully replicated since — live drums that feel programmed and programmed elements that feel alive, all held together by a strong modal jazz vocabulary filtered through London's club music. 'Strings of Light' and 'Joint 17' have a momentum that doesn't announce itself, it just carries you. It opened up a space that a lot of younger UK jazz acts have since moved into.

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