Various Mellow Mellow (Harmless)
Round our way, this could well be the sound of summer. A dozen laid-back, lazy, hazy, horizontal licks with groovin' on their mind, Mellow Mellow is as smooth and cool as they come. Of course, each individual track has been borrowed time and time again by everyone from Massive Attack to the Roots, but only the originals can walk it and talk it as nature intended. Barry White, Roy Ayers (diving deep with a sublime Roy Ayers Music Production take on Everybody Loves The Sunshine), Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Quincy Jones: we're talking and tripping on some layered, symphonic, swelling, soulful epics here, people. Now all we need are a few months of blue skies and sunshine and we're sorted.