Give The
People What They Want is certainly an appropriate title for Sharon Jones &
the Dap-Kings’ new release. After more than a decade of near constant touring,
recording, and as one of the most formidable live acts performing today, they
know what their audience wants from them. Happily, it’s what they want too.
The
appeal of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings just keeps growing. Michael Bublé
has duetted with Sharon on “Baby, You’ve Got What it Takes”, after recording
“Crazy Love” with the Dap-Kings back in 2009. The Dap-Kings also contributed to
several songs on this year’s smash album “To Be Loved”. They count Beck, John
Legend, Lou Reed and Rufus Wainwright among their collaborators, and of course
the Dap-Kings were the band behind Amy Winehouse’s Back In Black album for
which Gabriel Roth, bandleader and co-founder of Daptone Records, won a Grammy
for his engineering skills.
Yet it’s
the Augusta, Georgia native Sharon Jones who is the undisputed centre of
attention here. A recent Hollywood turn acting alongside Denzel Washington will
certainly do her star power no harm, but one listen to Give The People What
They Want will tell you Sharon doesn’t need the silver screen to set her name
in lights. Her fervent, impassioned singing goes straight to your heart; those
sweet soul hooks stay in your head for days on end. These are vocal
performances that withstand any comparison to the soul greats.
Give The
People What They Want is the band’s fifth album, recorded at home in Bushwick’s
Daptone House of Soul Studios after two years of touring behind 2010′s lauded I
Learned The Hard Way. These ten songs are seasoned with the classic Soul sound
one might expect – yet there’s a freshness in the band’s performances and
songwriting that gives the group’s fifth studio album a feel unlike anything
they’ve done before. From the electrifying stomp of album opener “Retreat!” to
the instantly familiar feel-good groove of “We Get Along,” via “Stranger To My
Happiness”, which perfectly captures the Dap-Kings’ sound in three-and-a-half
joyous minutes, this is a record that has it all.
Give the
people what they want, indeed.
Tracklisting:
01.
Retreat!
02.
Stranger To My Happiness
03. We
Get Along
04.
You’ll Be Lonely
05. Now
I See
06.
Making Up and Breaking Up (and Making Up and Breaking Up Over Again)
07. Get
Up and Get Out
08. Long
Time, Wrong Time
09.
People Don’t Get What They Deserve
10. Slow
Down Love
The
album Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings “Give The People What They Want”
(Daptone Records) is going to be released January 17, 2014.
~ grooveattack.com
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