Fred Everything: Love, Care, Kindness & Hope
Fred Everything: Love, Care, Kindness & Hope
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Fred Everything
Label: Lazy Days
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5060202597727
Genre: Dance
One day early in the global lockdown, Frederic Blais scribbled four words on a Post-It note and pinned it up in his studio. When he headed to a studio in the mountains north of Montreal to start work on his fifth album as Fred Everything, those words went with him. They would not only provide inspiration during two weeks of isolated music-making, but ultimately provide the subsequent album with it's title: Love, Care, Kindness and Hope.Those sentiments - a positive mantra during a period of personal and collective vulnerability and isolation - resonate throughout the album, a gorgeously warm and beautiful affair that counts as Blais's most personal, musically expansive, mature and sonically detailed set to date.While each of the tracks began as a rough sketch laid down during Blais' retreat, they evolved considerably over the months that followed. Blais reached out to a handful of carefully selected guest vocalists and collaborators, including Stereo MC's, Robert Owens, Sapele, James Alexander Bright, Wayne Tennant, string arranger Pete Whitfield and multi-instrumentalist Finn Peters. He also lent his voice to several tracks, a first in a career that stretches back to the 1990s.The results are magical, with Blais not only offering subtle variations on his own trademark deep house sound, but also nods to complimentary music styles and classic electronic albums from the late '90s and early 2000s. Naturally, much focus will fall on the album's high-profile guests, whose contributions work perfectly with Blais' cultured dancefloor electronica and soul-soaked broken house grooves. Robert Owens - 'the voice of house' himself - expertly delivers lyrics full of compassion and reassurance on recent single 'Never', Sapele infuses 'A Long Time Coming' with lashings of soulful spirituality, and UK hip-hop/soul legends Stereo MC's make their presence felt on the subtly Latin-infused dub house excellence of 'Soul Love'.Then there's 'Breathe', where UK singer-songwriter James Alexander Bright and backing vocalist Wayne Tennant rise above punchy broken house beats, Blais' trademark square-wave bass and Pete Whitfield's swelling strings on 'Breathe'. By the time kaleidoscopic, sun-down breakbeat brilliance of 'A Good Day' arrives to draw proceedings to a close, you'll be overflowing with Blais' 'love, care, kindness and hope' - just as he intended.Tracklisting:A1. A Long Time Coming (feat. Sapele)A2. Evening GhostA3. Never (feat. Robert Owens)A4. Something For YouB1. Soul Love (feat. Stereo MC's)B2. Breathe (feat. James Alexander Bright)B3. AsoleeB4. A Good Day
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