If this man isn’t on your radar, you’re properly missing out
If you haven’t heard of Jordan Rakei, then where the hell have you been? The New Zealand-born, Australia-raised multi-hyphenate has spent the last decade-and-a-bit building a catalogue of some of the smoothest neo-soul/R&B jams this side of 1950 and collaborating with the likes of Tom Misch, Loyle Carner, Lizzy McAlpine, and Disclosure – but it’s his new album, ‘The Loop’, that takes the crown of his best work to date.
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It’s an expansive 13-track album that somehow manages to sound intimate and epic all at the same time.
On the one hand, you’ve got bona fide bops like Freedom, Friend Or Foe, and Trust the latter of which seems to have been tailor-made to get festival fields around the continent shaking this summer; and on the other, you’ve got beautiful ballads like Hopes And Dreams, which we’d put money on soundtracking more than one happy couple’s big day over the next few years.
Curious? Well, you should be. So why not take ten minutes to check out a few of the tracks from the album?
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